Ricky Davis 12/12/25 Ricky Davis 12/12/25

Scenes from the South - Jack and Jesus

Still life photo at a cheap motel of a bottle of Jack Daniels and a Gideon’s Bible. Taken by Ricky Davis of TRD Photography.

Jack and Jesus…

Recently I was doing a photoshoot at a dank old cheap motel. I love the ambience of those old motels. The patched up walls, the sticky floors, and the cigarette burns in the bedding. It makes for great, gritty photographs.

Anyway, on the way to the photoshoot I had a couple ideas for some still life photos that I wanted to take while there. So here’s one I call “Jack and Jesus”.

I’m really curious as to how this image makes you guys feel? Feel free to comment below. I’d love to hear.

Ricky Davis 8/28/25 Ricky Davis 8/28/25

Kodak Tri X Test Roll Results... Still Life Work at the Studio

Send in the Clowns…. Kodak Tri X Film - Still Life Studio Photography by TRD Photography

During my last film session at my studio I had a little bit of a lighting issue. So today I wanted to do a test shoot to see if my suspicion of the issue was right. To test the roll, I decided to setup several different still life scenes. My brain gets pretty random when I do still life photography. So I put on Sierra Ferrell on my iphone (I just discovered her music and am loving it.) and then started going through some of my props putting some scenes together. The lighting turned out better than I expected.

I shot a roll of Kodak Tri X 120 film on my Mamiya 645 camera for this. On that roll you can expect to get somewhere between 13-15 shots per roll. When I do still life sets I generally take 1-3 shots per setup from varying angles/lighting movements. Out of 14 shots that came out, 12 of them were good solid usable shots. These were just my favorites of the setups. I’d love to hear what you guys think of these.

Scenes from the South - Jack and Jesus

Jack and Jesus…

Kodak Tri X Test Roll Results... Still Life Work at the Studio

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