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.
The IR Construction site - as the sun moved from mid afternoon to evening
Evening
Afternoon Skyline
Evening Skyline
Night skyline
Esplanade evening
The Fullerton and the Merlion
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.
A blue machine
An orange machine
Sri Lanka
Affinity
Concord
Better shot
Exotissimo again
Affinity again
Concord again
Sands
Cargraphic
Otto Marine
Boylan
Tios
The BMW class race - two machines approaching the turn
Ringo Chong, from Singapore, won this race - but I don't know what he was driving
Red machine
Locked tires - note you can see the rim of the wheel and read Bridgestone
This smoke suggests a blown engine
The Bay segment and an approaching machine
A little bit later
Another approaching machine
A sequence of an approaching machine
250 ms later
500 ms later
750 ms later
I thought this was Lewis Hamilton - but its not. Hamilton was driving the Vodafone machine
This is Hamilton - and what an evening he had, turning in the best time for the pole position.
The Canon-mobile
Renault - Alonzo
Alonzo again
Who?
Who?
Approaching with Marina Bay in the background
Philips
Canon
Break fire
Canon
More brake heat. It seems that this red machine started overheating brakes several laps before others displayed the same problem
Canon
Petronas
Canon
Red machine with overheating brakes
Red Bull brake overheating
Lewis Hamilton
Glock (I think)
Hamilton with brake overheating
Red Bull with brake overheating
C. Frank Starmer