I guess the short answer is "I'm not sure what I'm doing." I was messing around in Lightroom and liked what I came up with. Now I paste those same settings into other images for a starting point and then mess around until the settings suit that particular photo.
Some of the settings are fairly extreme. For the photo you mentioned, I have Recovery at 4, Fill Light at 92, Blacks at 49, Brightness at 50, Contrast at -18, Clarity at 57, and Vibrance at -100. The Tone Curve is pumped up with Highlights at 0, Lights at 39, Darks at 11, and Shadows at 32. For the third image in that group, I have Recovery at 48, Fill Light at 64, Blacks at 36, Brightness at 50, Contrast at 57, Clarity at 71, and Vibrance at -100. The Tone Curve is the same as the other image. And for the first image in that group, I have Recovery at 73, Fill Light at 57, Blacks at 27, Brightness at 50, Contrast at 73, Clarity at 83, and Vibrance at -100. The Tone Curve is the same as the other two.
These settings make some images look awful. For others, they look crisper with an inner glow, though you lose mid-tone detail.
Here's an example. I shot this a few weeks ago at the Las Vegas Convention Center with the 18mm. The first was processed my usual way -- first with Capture One, then Lightroom, and then Silver Efex Pro. With the second one, I loaded the DNG file directly into Lightroom and applied the settings (with no Capture One or Silver Efex Pro adjustments). In this case, I don't think the second one is necessarily better -- only different.
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