Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


September 26, 2009: F1 Practice

It was bound to happen (as Mike would say) - I had tickets for Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was a practice photo day - and its a good thing that I realized I needed a dry run. Everything I tried was forbidden - no tripid (a safety reason), no standing at the fence, no standing at the top of the seating area, no taking photos where one official said I could take photos. So most of these are from my seat.

Mike pointed out to me, I should try the slow shutter speed pan. So I did. And it worked. Shot F8 at 250th with ISO 200 during the day and ISO 800 during the night. The D300 needed a bit of tweaking. I had to turn vivid off (as this sharpens things as well as pushing saturation and sharpening amplifies the noise. I turned off Noise reduction for high ISO because this reduces the effective pixel resolution (by smoothing the image). With this I got some decent shots at ISO 800 and ISO 1200 - or better yet, you be the judge.

sep 26 9299 ir construction

The IR Construction site - as the sun moved from mid afternoon to evening

sep 26 2724 ir construction

sep 26 9519 ir construction

sep 26 9521 ir construction

sep 26 9538 ir construction

sep 26 9558 ir construction

Evening

sep 26 9558 ir evening

sep 26 9560 ir evening

sep 26 3439 ir construction

Afternoon Skyline

sep 26 2168 afternoon skyline

Evening Skyline

sep 26 9557 evening skyline

Night skyline

sep 26 3441 night skyline

sep 26 9573 skyline evening

Esplanade evening

sep 26 9665 esplanade evening

The Fullerton and the Merlion

sep 26 9658 fullerton

THe afternoon started with time tials for a race. Here is the somewhat interestingly named Exotissimo. Mike suggested that I try to pan and shoot in order to blur the background. I learned two things. I can pan and shoot and the verticle bars of the fence disappear. The following night for the F1, I was seated along the straight-away in front of the old Parliment building and guess what - I cannot pan and shoot when the guys are moving 250 km/hr. The real race was mostly a photo disappointment.

sep 26 2037 exotissimo

A blue machine

sep 26 2061 52

An orange machine

sep 26 2095 orange car

Sri Lanka

sep 26 2138 sri lanka

Affinity

sep 26 2204 affinity

Concord

sep 26 2224 concord

Better shot

sep 26 2227 concord

Exotissimo again

sep 26 2278 exotissimo

Affinity again

sep 26 2327 affinity

Concord again

sep 26 2348 concord

Sands

sep 26 9343 sands

Cargraphic

sep 26 9380 cargraphic

Otto Marine

sep 26 9475 otto marine

Boylan

sep 26 9482 boylan

Tios

sep 26 9495 tios

The BMW class race - two machines approaching the turn

sep 26 2804 bmw race

Ringo Chong, from Singapore, won this race - but I don't know what he was driving

sep 26 2824 bmw class crash

Red machine

sep 26 2849 red bmw class

Locked tires - note you can see the rim of the wheel and read Bridgestone

sep 26 3268 tire lockup

This smoke suggests a blown engine

sep 26 3281 smoke

The Bay segment and an approaching machine

sep 26 3349 skyline circuit

A little bit later

sep 26 3355 skyline car

Another approaching machine

sep 26 3361 skyline car

A sequence of an approaching machine

sep 26 3371 skyline car

250 ms later

sep 26 3372 skyline car

500 ms later

sep 26 3373 skyline car

750 ms later

sep 26 3374 skyline car

I thought this was Lewis Hamilton - but its not. Hamilton was driving the Vodafone machine

sep 26 0002 hamilton

This is Hamilton - and what an evening he had, turning in the best time for the pole position.

sep 26 9894 vodofone

The Canon-mobile

sep 26 0048 canon

Renault - Alonzo

sep 26 3434 renault

sep 26 9613 medion

Alonzo again

sep 26 9622 renault

Who?

sep 26 9646 hamilton

Who?

sep 26 9648 canon

Approaching with Marina Bay in the background

sep 26 9680 yellow car marina bay

Philips

sep 26 9700 philips

Canon

sep 26 9732 canon

Break fire

sep 26 9755 brake heat

Canon

sep 26 9795 canon

More brake heat. It seems that this red machine started overheating brakes several laps before others displayed the same problem

sep 26 9804 hamilton brake

Canon

sep 26 9824 canon

Petronas

sep 26 9884 petronas

Canon

sep 26 9888 canon

Red machine with overheating brakes

sep 26 9896 hamilton brake

Red Bull brake overheating

sep 26 9921 red bull brake

Lewis Hamilton

sep 26 9941 vodofone

Glock (I think)

sep 26 9952 panasonic brake

Hamilton with brake overheating

sep 26 9965 vodafone brake

Red Bull with brake overheating

sep 26 9985 red bull brake

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