South Beach Lifestyle Quarter - Aerial View

South Beach Lifestyle Quarter North Tower on the left, South Tower on the right.

Lots of things in the background. From left to right - Centennial Tower, Millenia Tower, North Tower, Suntec Convetion and Exhibition Centre (white sail roof), South Tower, Marina Bay Sands (near the sea), Marina Bay Financial Centre (blue skyscrapers, far right). There's also the Esplanade Theatres and the white column of the World War II Memorial on the right, and part of Raffles Hotel at the bottom right.

View from The Pod at National Library. I was photographing an event there and had plenty of down time.
http://www.nlb.gov.sg/exhibitions/bookstobytes/zone4/thepod.html

Technical information:

• Nikon D600, 28-300mm f3.5-5.6
• At 28mm, f8.0, ISO 100, 1/180 seconds
• Aperture-priority, automatic ISO, center-weighted metering, automatic white balance
• Picasa: Straighten, crop, auto contrast, fill light, highlights, increased color saturation

Had to shoot through the thick glass windows from about a meter because they curve out and there's a guard rail preventing you from getting too close. So I couldn't press the lens up against the window and reduce the effect of the glass. Luckily there were no reflections. Picasa's auto contrast cleared up the image a lot (glass will make the image have a milky film even when there are no obvious reflections). I then had to boost the fill light and highlights to bring out detail in the buildings.

With landscape photos like this, you can usually boost the color saturation to make the colors more intense. It's harder to do when there are people in the photo because then their skin tone will look artificial.  

Esplanade Theatres, Esplanade Bridge and Singapore Flyer, Night

You can see both domes of the Esplanade Theatres on the left, with the Pan Pacific Hotel and Millenia Tower in the background. Large Ferris Wheel on the right is the Singapore Flyer. Not sure what the building in the center background is, maybe the Mandarin Oriental or Ritz-Carlton Millenia. 

Bridge is the Esplanade Bridge, over which runs Esplanade Drive. It's part of the Formula 1 race Circuit. They didn't use to have colored lights under the bridge, which look pretty cool. The bridge is the reason why the Merlion was uprooted and moved to a spot about 100 meters away, next to One Fullerton (http://sgsnaps.blogspot.com/2011/04/one-fullerton-night.html). The bridge blocked the Merlion at its original location next to the Waterboat House.

Photo was taken from Esplanade Park. If you look closely, you can see a guy and a girl sitting on the wall on the bank of the river, on the left.Yes, the whole river has been concreted up.

• Nikon D7000, 35mm f1.8.
• At 35mm, f3.3, 1/15 seconds, ISO 1600.
• Shutter priority, center weighted metering, incandescent white balance.
• Picasa: Auto contrast.