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This has probably been the worst week of my adult hood life, so many things happened, ones I don't care to explain, and others that deserve a good rant. One of the more prominent issues was my camera breaking on Monday, it was a tragic event. I'll probably have nightmares about it sometime in the near future, sounds funny but I'm so serious. It left me in distraught, The X-T1 was my dream body, and it's no longer with me, my XF 56mm took beautiful portrait pictures, almost effortless and now I was left with just my Fujifilm X100T.

Not the most popular complaint I get it, some photographer's would die for just the camera above, after all it is suitable for any type of job, as long as the 35mm focal length (FF eqv.) is suitable. Some people even suggested that I grab a TCL-X100 conversion lens in my time of desperateness, which will and always be an option, depending on how my IndieGoGo campaign goes.

But, as they say, the show must go on, and regardless of any set backs, I won't be quitting any of my projects, even if it means doing a full shoot with my iPhone 6+. My subject for the week was Diamond Rogers, I've known Diamond since she was 15, so I wasn't nervous shooting her, however I did feel a little insecure about my gear, the X100T is a powerful camera, but it's small form factor says otherwise, and because I was bringing Diamond in almost negative degree weather I didn't want her to think I wasn't taking the shoot seriously.

We decided to take the pictures on Detroit's Dequindre Cut, the reason I picked this location is because of the many lights it had, ever so many feet had a street light, so I wanted to use that to my advantage. Personally I don't think I've ever done a portrait session under these conditions, by that I mean at night, so the entire time I was doubting myself.

When we reached the destination it was pretty bland, Dequindre Cut is know for it's beautiful art, but that was hard to highlight with all the snow surrounding it, not to mention I didn't want to be to typical. I wanted to take advantage of the long trial, I knew I'd be shooting wide open so blurring out the trails long end was a perfect situation for this shoot, so that's what I attempted to do. Unfortunately I may have taken too much time on that one shot, by the time I was happy with my light, and camera settings Diamond was freezing, it resulted in the same shot several times, actually I don't think she changed her pose one time.