Twin Peaks view, the other way

The view from Twin Peaks over downtown San Francisco and the bay is renowned though you don't see nearly as many shots looking the other way, west towards the Pacific.

In my very brief visit to the top, I took a good set of the usual angles but as I walked back to my car in the top little car park, the view over more residential houses out to the coast was also lovely and with the low sun had quite a filmic, Hollywood feel to it for me.

In processing, I've pulled the colour tint to the green end a little as well as warming the colour balance to mimic a bit more of a cinematic palette as well as the view I had wearing sunglasses. The letterbox ratio crop adds another visual cue as well as cropping out the road passing underneath me which would be a distraction from the view looking outwards.

Lightroom vs. Iridient

On a processing software note: plenty has been written about Lightroom's poor rendering of sharpness detail on Fuji X-trans files and I finally bought Iridient Developer recently to compare. The sharpness Iridient can get out of Fuji files is exceptional and the final missing element for me; looking back at files process only in Lightroom like this one, they feel a little spoiled now though I should remember I was generally happy enough with them at the time of processing.

I also had a very brief play with the new Corel AfterShot Pro 3 when it came out a couple of weeks ago and I have to say I was also very impressed with the sharpness it could get from Fuji files. I'll play with that one a bit more at some point, though the way Iridient can run as a plugin to Lightroom makes it a nice companion as nothing I've seen comes close to LR's library management yet, despite its slow performance.