The view from Twin Peaks hill is certainly one of my favorites in San Francisco. You’ll be able to observe a part of the town from Golden Gate Bridge to Bay Bridge, with downtown within the center and San Francisco Bay within the background.
The Twin Peaks viewpoint in San Francisco is likely one of the metropolis’s most standard vacationer locations and is all the time busy. It sits atop two hills and offers breathtaking views of downtown San Francisco and San Francisco Bay. Town’s well-known landmarks, resembling Alcatraz Island and the Transamerica Pyramid, will also be seen. Twin Peaks is nice for taking distinctive pictures and having fun with the town’s skyline.
Due to the ever-changing climate within the San Francisco space, you by no means know what sort of view you’ll discover once you go to Twin Peaks.
On the day I took the featured photograph, the air was completely clear, however in some way, solely the bay was coated with a mix of clouds and fog that made it troublesome to find iconic landmarks like Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. However, on the identical time, the clouds and fog created an out-of-focus, blurred background impact that pointed the viewer’s consideration to the town. I didn’t complain.
The view from Twin Peaks additionally makes you notice how distinctive San Francisco is. As an alternative of typical metropolis colours like gray, yellow, and brown dominating the town, San Francisco’s predominant coloration is white. This creates such a particular city sample.
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Taking pictures
The problem of taking pictures from the Twin Peaks hill is that isn’t straightforward to create a significant composition with some sort of foreground curiosity. Since I couldn’t discover something attention-grabbing round me, I made a decision to make use of the a part of the street switchback under me as a part of the composition.
Enhancing & Processing
It was a single RAW processing workflow.
Lightroom (60%)
I modified the side ratio from the unique 3 x 2 to 16 x 9 to make the composition extra panoramic. I used the Crop Overlay Instrument.
Subsequent, I used Level Lobos preset from my Panorama Preset Assortment as the bottom for Lightroom Speedy Enhancing. Then I used TOOLKIT to spice up the Distinction and the Readability.
The Lightroom Preset Enhancing System: Level Lobos (13, 16, 21)
Photoshop (40%)
I used the Stamp Instrument in Photoshop to erase the bicycle owner and the street signal within the foreground. Additionally, I coated some distracting parts within the backside proper nook. The remainder was a easy enhance of particulars and noise discount.
Plugins: DeNoise (noise discount), Topaz Element (native distinction enhance).
Complete time: 12min
