The Campfire

great shot tai , love the lighting

WOW This is bloody brilliant Tai…..I was laughing at your description of the white knuckle ride in photoshop….Maybe you can give me some tips as I havent unwrapped mine from the box yet because im terrified haha

INcredible work Tai!

haha oh yes, i do things in paintshop pro and they turn out great then i try to re-create them and ….nope, memory cant remember, so my art turns into one of a kind haha

Brilliant

Well it went into my favs ASAP It is impossible to give you enough praise and good on Peter for his guidance Tia I think you may have just begun a wonderful new journey.
I may not hear from you for months !! lol you will be in the never ending world of P/S

Outstanding work – stunning detail ♥

love the colour in his face!

love it great light on a wonderful face ..superb

excellent work

Fantastic portrait! Brilliantly executed!

Superb face for portraits Tai. Lot’s of character. Well done on capturing it!

inspiring work tai!! magic!!

BRILLIANT!!!
☼ BRAVO !! ☼
☼ Happy Australia Day !! ☼

This is possibly one of the very best portraits I have ever seen and certainly well worth while sending off to some of the Digital Photo magazines for their assessment. Also keep an eye out for competitions around the place where you could enter it. Pure brilliance mate! Hugs, Peter

ooooooooooooh Tai this is so expressive, clear, rich, deep and every ounce of feeling is shown in this fellas face. You are getting better and better!!! love it….. a fave! xxx

Fabulous and amazing capture Tainia. You certainly look like you had a very good subject to capture.

Great work, Tainia!

Excellent shot. Great colors and lighting.

This is a great portrait, even better than the other one….reminds me of Mr Eastwood in one of his spagetti westerns :)

Stunning portrait.

Another great c/u Tai, presumably Dragan again.

Try to teach “On Ilkley Moor Bar T’at” to the Strines!

This is stunning Tai I love the the light and detail and Banjo’s song fits it perfectly. Proper job M’dear

A great well weathered person, I bet behind his lines there are many stories to tell. Brilliant shot especially the lighting. Well done a really enjoable photograph.

Another AWESOME capture…..Beautiful work once again, Tainia…... :-))

Excellent portrait Tai. The colour bias really suits this subject!

Pure Perfection Tai, For a trail and erroe, this is very professional my friend, great work

perfect Tainia!

Tai these just getting better and better, wonderful work and great lighting xx

A magic piece of work Tai. Well worth the time spent on PS. John

well done tai!

Magnificent image!

Oh WOW!!!!! my jaw dropped when I saw this. It is BRILLIANT! You’ve done an AMAZING job with this…I too, am dipping my toes in the PS world…and it’s scary. You’re lucky to have someone to ‘hold your hand’...makes all the difference! ..... Cheers!

Tainia, This is an amazing work of art, you have mastered this program so well, Congratulations.

malcolm

Tainia stunning piece of work and well captured… really really nice stuff.

Get outta here Tai!! LOL…Fan-bloody-tastic!!!!!! Exceptional work!!! *-)

When I first saw this I thought “Wow” this is beautiful! Dave

wow, stunningly perfect. well done

Perfect Tainia

Superb!!!

Your portrait work is superlative….this is an amazing character shot, and the light just perfect! Gosh Tainia, how do you do this!!!

illuminance like no other

stunning and perfect photo. you really captured the essence of the person. Nice job!

FABULOUS WORK, lass!!! :))))))))))))))))
xoxoxoxoxo

just excellent:)

Fantastic work Tainia, the glow on his face, the look….just supurb.

Brilliant work Tainia congratulations:))

The lighting is superb Tainia!! Great image/portrait!!

...BTW…we used to sing Waltzing Matilda at camp when I was a young boy! Love the tune!!

Tainia…....a beautiful image…...nothing surer…...
totally Aussie!!
a story in every weather beaten line!!

Tainia, congrats, this is bruilliant work my friend.

Amesome image, real character comes through…..

awesome lighting!

Wow!!! A truly brilliant portrait.

Fantastic – great work:)

excellent work!!

Hi Tainia, congrats on the homepage feature. It’s a cracking image.

I KNEW IT!!! (smug happy dancing up and down here) that this one was just destined for the Home Page the minute I saw it!! SOOO well deserved and totally brilliant work!! youre work is ACE tai..

yippeeeeeeeeeee and cheering my head off

ding ;))))

Congratulations on the Home Page Tainia. , well done .

Excellent Well captured. Congrats on the Home Page….. :)

Beautiful shot

awesome! congrats on home page!

Congradulations on the home page, this is a wonderful image so well deserved.

Awesome work, Tai!

Superb portarit! Outstanding work, Congratulations!

Excellent portrait! Congratulations on your home page feature! :)

This soooo deserves to be on the Homepage so many congratulations and jubulations!! :0)

Congratulations on your Front Page feature. This is AWSOME!

MY CONGRATULATIONS on your HOMEPAGE feature Taina…oh my this work is simply OUTSTANDING and I sincerely COMMEND you

Congratulations on having this wonderful image featured on the Redbubble home page!!! Mary-Ann

A CONGRATS ON HOME PAGE !

Congrats Tainia…outstanding portrait!

Congratulations on the homepage feature – this is one of the best portraits I have seen in a very long time

Congratulations on being “Headline News”, Tai !!!! A wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, Aussie image, truly worthy of the honour !! Tai, your talents deserve all the recognition and accolades that your receive !!!

Congratulations on the Home page Feature. Certainly well deserved this image is absolutely brilliant, light, character composition and the true essence of the Australian spirit….’Good on Yeah Mate!”:):)

great warmth to this. very nice!

this is absolutely amazing work

Stunning work Tainia, well done!!

Dear Tainia,

I personally believe that this is a bloody good portrait..i can;t say it is the best but this one is defitenely stunning..mind sharing your post processing tips?

It’s really briliant! Keep it up

Regards,
Alan Tan

Congratulations on your homepage feature! Excellent work!

Congratulations on the front page feature :)

This is so exceptional that I can’t stop looking at it. It doesn’t look like a photograph – it looks like a painting that looks like a photograph.

Beautiful work ! love the light.

Congrats on the home page feature Tai.

What a wonderful photo! It’s a classic shot.

execellent shot,true blue ozzie face

Amazing capture, well done.

The processing has worked well, it reminds me of HDR, but it is the lighting that really makes it.

Brillian portrait, congratulations on the home page! I really wonder how you did it. Would be interesting to see the initial image too! Great work!

congrats on homepage sweetie!!! a wonderful portrait!

Brilliant work!

Congrats on the Home Page Tai!!! You go girl !!!

Fantastic news for you Tainia!!!! He’s SO stunning. Well done.

Stunning portrait capture!! CONGRATULATIONS

As a portrait, Awesome. As for color, perfect, As for your work in editing the image in Photoshop, excellent. All I can say is I wish I had the ability to do such great work. I now have the camera and the software. Now to learn and hope one day I will be this good.

Wow Tania!! Brilliant!! True Aussie character and Waltzing Matilda – just Perfect!! Congratulations on having your awesome work featured on the Home Page!! x :o)

Lovely portrait beautifully rendered. Congrat!

Your portrait has captured the indispensable element of an outback Australian.
Truly BRILLIANT!! Steve

great capture, nicely done :))

Great portairt! Any hints on how you edited it? :)

Brilliant. Typically Aussie. Fantastic detail & I love the light.

Wonderful shot… I thought it was a painting at first because the tones looked so perfect. Stunning, instant fav.

Excellent photography.

A fab bad to the bone fine art portrait….excellent on many levels!

great shot! wonderful treatment!

Wow!!! Wonderful portrait, you’ve done Mal justice, that’s for sure :)

Fantastic, congrats on well deserved recognition.

Wow!!! Wonderful Great colors and lighting.

Stunning.

Greate shot…congrat….

oh yes, what an image…

Beautiful work…love the color!!

excellent,

fabulous work Tainia.

I must say, you did a fantastic job in PS here. :)
(white knuckle ride…haa. Cute. I hear ya!) He has
a bit of an outline around his back (shirt) but it’s nothing
that takes away from this terrific work of art. You lighting
work is exceptionally well done! (gasp) Gorgeous work. :)

Awesome work Tainia :)

This is perfect Tai

fantastic!!!! naturaly, it is featured, congratulation!!!

What great character and colours you’ve caught in this shot. Stunning work.

Excellent, love the strong lighting :-)))

Cracking shot,
one of the best on RB

Wow Wow and Wow amazing capture !!!!!

I’ve left a comment earlier, but I love this image – it’s such a lovely capture of something straight out of Waltzing Matilda.

I love this capture Tainia, the detail is wonderful and the colours of his skin tones are marvellously rendered. Tremendous work.

P.S. Used to love singing that campfire song.

Wow, what a wonderful capture. Great detail and color. fabulous work!!!

Just found this—it is wonderful and amazing.

perfect

you said-—>This is a trial & error test for me so I would welcome any critique. ( i said…...its awesome….....you look like a natural….......PHotoshop D; man….......good work..i encourage you to try some more….....after all…....looks like your a pro to me…....i do love this one, its not featured yet? if i had a group it would be featured in mine….....so there.

Congrats…stunning portrait, Oz style!

awesome work !!!!

brilliant

AWSOME Portrait Sis love the way you treated this:) huggggggggggz

Stunning portrait

Excellent work

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!

This is just Bloody brilliant mate strueth!!! Wonderful capture of character,great colours…did I mention ‘WOW!!”

Exceptional portrait! Love the treatment! The glow on his face is incredible and I must say what character it exudes!

Lovely light, composition and detail.

This is amazing work, you can really feel the heat and see the light relflected on the skin tones.excellant work,.instant fav…anna : )

brilliant work,,,,,,,,,,

When I enetered your site this image like a magnet attract my attention, so its not surprise to me that this image was on RedBubble home site. Its really masterpiece.
Congratulations.

Terrific image Tainia. It has a wonderful painterly look about it with all the wonderful textures of the face. Such character in that face. Very interesting lighting effects. Those green eyes are amazing. A truly superb image and a fav for me. :)

Absolutely amazing blending of light, expression, background, and color to create a sense of contentment and perhaps even wisdom, – an archetypal father image that feels really close to the earth!

Hi Tainia,
I was just looking at your work. This is wonderful – could be a canvas masterpiece : 0. I love the colours and the ambience of the image. A truely captivating photo. Congrats and congrats on all the comments. largo

amazing portrait – beautiful work!!!

Wonderful!!

Simply A Great portrait!:)
Love it!:)
and Fav again!:)
I Realy enjoy your work!:)

WOW
JUST AWESOMW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A WINNER,THIS SHOULD BE IN SOME COMPETION*

(awesome)

(competition)

top shot. Congratulations

SUBLIME CAPTURE..

The guest host that featured your work this week was bygeorge
“LINK”: http://www.redbubble.com/people/bygeorge

Ooops let me try the link to his page again, sorry
LINK

Instant fave. Unbelievable shot. Just stunning!

Wonderful work. Is this all photoshop or did you use paint as well? If you can share any tips on getting to the end-product shown here I would be interested.—Steve

excellent portrait and lighting ! I love his expression and the superb details… love it all in fact =)

Tai- well done on surviving photoshop!! it was worth the stress and white knuckles :P

stunning work

Absolutely brilliant….. a genius at work!

Fantastic portrait! Fabulous lighting!

This is a truly amazing portrait…wonderful work!

Absolutely fantastic portrait!!!

Beautiful result. It has transformed into a memorable atmospheric portrait.

Fantastic portrait…