Pesky fireban … ruins everything
Posted on Monday 21st December 2009
Last night we braved the mozzies and crowds to attend the annual Carols by Candlelight. I hadn’t even been aware that the event existed so it became another Adelaide first.
Rather than the intimate affair door-to-door in Shamley Green, this was an outside concert with guest acts, a full choir and jazz band. Obviously it is very popular as we were among thirty thousand people or so. The choice of music, however, was somewhat less than conventional and I was unaware that “Love The One You’re With” was a carol. Fortunately there were enough of the standard offerings to satisfy the traditionalists.
Unfortunately the title was a misnomer with a distinct shortage of candles. Instead, garish multi-coloured LED lights were the order of the night. Far lower risk of fire, but not exactly making for an authentic Yuletide scene.
And it also acted as a good opportunity to take the camera out and start learning how to take good photos:
The full automatic settings don’t necessarily get it right, as this over-exposed shot of St Peter’s Cathedral shows:
But with a little tweaking on manual it was possible to get a far more natural appearance:
The rest of the photos can be found here.
Those shots of the cathedral act as a neat segue as we are planning to go to the midnight Eucharist. there next Thurs. Hopefully there will be a conspicuous and pleasing lack of 70s cheese.
