Test Out These Award-Successful Images From Our Photographers

Every week, Matt Modoono and Alyssa Stone take dozens of images documenting every little thing at Northeastern University — of scholar life and studying, analysis in progress, sports activities, celebrations and portraits of the college group. Their photos are a trademark of Northeastern’s visible model, whether or not on web site pages or blown up on banners, posters, and occasional wall murals dotting campus.

This September, the pair gained an armful of awards from the University Photographers’ Association of America’s prestigious annual picture competitors, together with prime prizes for his or her picture essays and a runner-up exhibiting for Modoono within the “Photographer of the Year “class. Modoono was additionally chosen as a featured finalist in PhotoShelter‘s Higher Ed Storyteller of the Year Awards.

We requested Modoono, NGN’s director of pictures, and NGN employees photographer Stone concerning the substances that went into these profitable entries — and obtained perception into their day-to-day processes, favourite photos and methods of the commerce.

Photo Essay, “Science and research” (1st place)

About this entry: Modoono estimates that he and Stone have assignments for at the very least three NGN tales involving analysis each week. “It’s everything from detail shots to students, researchers or professors working in labs,” he says.

From that huge pool of choices, these had been his favorites.

“This is a collection I thought would stand out to the voters,” he says. “Alyssa and I push the boundaries here visually, by including gels and techniques to stylize our photography while keeping consistent with the brand.”

For the highest middle shot, inside an MRI tube, a useful machine couldn’t be used as a result of the working magnets inside may probably harm all of the gear concerned. Instead, the shot was staged in a nonworking tube with out magnets. The result’s “a perspective that you don’t get to see a lot,” Modoono says.

Photo Essay, “Building Champions” (Third Place)

About this entry: “This is the type of work that I enjoy — being out in the field,” Stone says of her collection documenting a dawn rowing observe.

“And I think it shows, that I enjoy it. The photos turn out better.”

For an NGN characteristic about longtime Northeastern ladies’s rowing coach Joe Wilhelm , Stone hit the Charles River with the staff earlier than 6 a.m. on a crisp October morning. The venue and the altering gentle all through the morning lent itself to a variety of pictures, from daybreak views of the Boston skyline to wood-paneled portrait pictures within the staff’s boathouse.

“It had a good variety of stuff: some details, nice portraits, a lot of motion,” she says. “It was actually not the morning I was hoping for in terms of lighting — I wanted some harsher shadows. But it panned out just fine.”

News and College Life (1st place)

About this picture: Event protection is a large a part of a campus photographer’s job, however one of the best picture ops usually occur earlier than or after the occasions themselves. That was the case for the shot under, taken on the Bouvé College of Health Sciences spring graduation.

“I probably took 100 shots of this exact frame,” Modoono says. “I’m shooting through family members’ heads here, just waiting for the right moment, and a graduate just happened to pass right where I wanted.”

“I love a good silhouette” he provides. “It’s not something you see too often.”

Photo Essay, “2025 Commencement” (Fourth place)

About this entry: Northeastern’s Fenway Park graduation is a marathon day for Modoono and Stone. It sometimes begins round 4:30 a.m., after they arrive to get pictures of the dawn over the ballpark.

“Alyssa and I get up on the roof to team up on it.” Modoono says. “That way we can get the sunrise from different angles.”

The dawn is one in all a protracted record of images they should make sure you get all through the day — together with featured audio system, performances, cheering crowds and fireworks. And they’re at all times on the hunt for the “great moments” in between, Modoono says.

“I look for great lights, and we push the boundaries a little bit with things like multiple exposures, or shooting into the light to [create] a sun flare. So it’s those big moments and artistic visuals all pulled together.”