Photographing the NYC Nostalgia Train: Instagram vs. Reality

Im a fan of yours on ig, hope you keep this format and share more about your process and gear from time to time! Great vid

Love that you got in front of the camera for this one!

This is nicely put together Mike. I think you have great presence in front of the camera and the city as the backdrop is the best bro!

Love the added context through your explanation
Did you use the same camera for taking both video and photos?

Do whatever you want bro! I’ll watch it! 🫡🤙🏼

"don't have a nice office" proceeds to have a sick nyc view at blue hour 😅 good to see you in front of the camera dude, great work on this one! bummed I couldn't make it out for a single one of these days but definitely will next year

Very interesting video in many aspects. Cheers for sharing.

Well done man. Great work. Glad you came around with us. Love the pics you got of us as a group

Incredible work man

This is awesome! Good stuff man!

I was pretty curious about this when it blew up all over IG at the time it happened. Cool to get a fuller understanding of the event/seems like an interesting shooting experience.

Good to see you talking on camera. Definitely adds a lot and you’re good on camera.

Awesome man ! Keep it up.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I really enjoyed it. Subscribed.

very entertaining, ive only watched like 2 minutes of your last video and has been sitting in my watch later for a while now, but im going to watch and finish it right now after this video

Dig it. Enjoyed the insight on maintaining the aesthetic in your shots despite the chaotic scene👌

Whoa! You can capture the magic. I'm enchanted. Earlier I came across a video from Japan and that's how I ended up here. I am not a photographer, but I am interested in images (I graduated in painting). I wonder how you would cope with very budget equipment. I have a Nikon D3200 myself, one thing is that I don't know how to use it very well, and the other one is that it's possible to do such a cool things with such equipment. If you had no idea for content :D Good luck and all the best :)

Awesome video! This looks insanely fun to go to, might have to go next year and experience it for myself. The shots you got were great!

Nice. But I'll wait for more cyberpunk dystopian videos.
Greetings from Bolivia.

Thank you. Keep them coming, you are my most interesting discovery in recent time.

Those shots with Broadway actors not looking at the camera - mother of god, STUNNING

Love it that u don't go the gear way. We want creativity and not the next reviewer guy. Loved this video and your first one was just brilliant!

What a superb and wonderful done here Mike! It was excellent in every way 👏

These shots ❤️🙌🏾 the whole thing is just a vibe 🔥🔥🔥

Great video! Hope to see more of this type of stuff! Its cool to see how you work to get the type of shots you do

I subscribed after your Japan video glad I did.

really nicely done dude, love the behind the scenes info too…looked like fun 😎🙌🏼

Fantastic photos! Vibrant colours! You're truly gifted. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you!

loving this channel so far

You have a talent for video mate.

First two videos have been amazing, one just the work and one more talking/explaining the process. Trying to do this type of art and these help a lot. Hope you do more

I Love your videos. Keep them coming! Very inspiring

Great video! I've been following your work in IG for years now. Please upload more videos like these 🔥

I genuinely thought you had millions of subs and thousands of videos?! I never subscribed so fast to a channel, love your content and vibe dude

Great video! Loving this!

Incredible work that I will share to my friends for sure !

You are doing excellent man keep doing it

I really appreciate your work, so thank you for sharing it. On another note, I also think you seem like a cool person. It's refreshing to see someone approach these kinds of videos in a more down-to-earth manner, as opposed to the overexcited "OMG, this is so awesome" vibe often found here.

New York City is the best video (or anything, really) background, no need for expensive lights and studios, brother.

This was great. Stellar vibes. Appreciated.

dude, nice! you're a great shot

Amazing work man😊

Nice photos 🔥

Awesome!

Very nice.

Kudos on putting this together and giving it a story… I lived in NYC from January 1996 thru 2003 and have lived around the City since (though further and further) caught the Nostalgia Train last year (2023) for the first time and I loved It! The very thing that made New York the best years of my life!

(Sadly, it’s deteriorating FAST and already worse than 1996 when I got there as the City “government” actually ENCOURAGES crime to drive out the Citizens and replace them with illegals)

As for this event, I brought my Sony A1 and new Off Flash Unit with high speed sync! Little good if did me… the lighting was changing so fast that I abandoned the serious equipment and just used my iPhone 11 Plus and let Apple sort it out!

Idea!

Take advantage of the City providing the “set” and rehearse a ‘guerrilla’ gang of actors and shooters and come up with a Period Story line and take the day shooting it!

With a little research of 1930/40s movies, I bet there’s an angle that can take full advantage of the celebration!

What is your filming setup? do you use the same camera and lens that you are taking photos with? Great video keep them coming

Super helpful man, rewatching this one again before shooting the train tomorrow for the first time haha

Your production and photography are amazing dude.I hope you make plenty of money….