Hasselblad Masters 2023

[grotte]

Just got an invite to vote for the winners:
This year's competition saw record-breaking submissions of 85,000 images, highlighting its growing popularity.
I only looked at the landscape category, but all the finalists look overly processed, uninteresting and frankly dull.

[acg69]

Same here... Didn't see anything that made me go WOW!

[bcvthul]

Same here, I selected. architecture. I had the impression that it were computer picture, no photograpy...

[polychloros]

I'm not sure of the wisdom of opening up the voting to Hasselblad users. These kind of competitions are usually better judged by industry insiders rather than be an online popularity contest.

Whilst mostly not my thing, there is IMO a lot of quality work in the shortlist. Interesting to see how certain styles have become so dominant and that same look/style appears across all the categories.

[bmikiten]

Same here... Didn't see anything that made me go WOW!

Same. Many of the shots were dull, somewhat forced and in many cases just not interesting. That said... I didn't submit so...