david gilliver

david gilliver

Bentleigh, AUSTRALIA

I’m based in Melbourne, Australia.

See more of my photos at photos.gilliver.net

You can also read random ramblings on photography on Facebook

I’m primarily a portrait photographer so you’ll probably see my best work on my website.

I prefer to avoid image editing with Photoshop, so most of the images you’ll see here are direct-from-camera (they’ll be marked as ‘unedited image’). My philosophy is usually: if it needs Photoshop, I must have stuffed up.

For the record, I hate the expressions “nice capture”, “great capture”, “lovely capture” etc. Very few of my photos are accidental so I don’t like the implication that I was merely lucky.

It’s been a while since I finished any writing but I’ve uploaded some older pieces here.

photo of David by Kit

  • Joined: June 2007

Journals

finding home
As I work in IT, I’m completely comfortable with computer technology. As such, it’s hardly surprising that I jumped into photography by buying a digital camera. At the time it was just my latest tech toy but this turned out to be one that stuck. I used to go to gigs and take bad photos with my little digital camera and then when I got home I would crop and tweak mercilessly on the com…
Posted about 3 years – 4 comments
fireworks photos
Posted about 3 years – 1 comments
talking about some of my photos
Posted about 3 years – Leave a comment