Cat Photographer Susie Inverso
Does this sound familiar? Your cat is doing something super adorable. You grab your camera and snap a picture, but the photo never does your feline friend justice. Then there's those black beauty kitties! You snap a quick pic of your sleek black panther and the photo looks like a lump with no face.
How do people get such great pictures of their cats? Your cat is just as beautiful (possibly more beautiful) than theirs! When Rita and Linda met Suzie Inverso, who photographs pets professionally at her studio, Crimson Cat Photography, they knew they wanted to talk to her! Listen in to hear more and pick up a few tips for your own cat cover-girl... or boy!
Listen to Episode #132 Now:
BIO:
I don’t have human kids. My kids have paws!
I grew up with a sister - my Golden Retriever, Buffy - who taught me the language of animals. Which means that currently, I’m a dog person who has cats. Now, 2 felines greet me at the door when I come home. That’s why when I see a dog out in the world I get all “Squeeeee! Can I say Hi to your dog?!?!?!”
It’s just one of my quirks, besides my hair, clothes, hobbies, and general life choices.
My belief and experience is that our connection with our pets is a strong bond, a love deeper than love. I am honored to use my talent and skills - which I discovered and began to hone way back in the days of film - to create treasured works of art of your best beasts. I can’t wait.
Susie Inverso has now photographed three books in the 111 Places series. After spending her entire life in Chicago, she and her husband decided to relocate to Denver so they could enjoy the beauty of the mountains. When not hiking, biking, or skiing, Susie is a pet photographer and runs Crimson Cat Studios in Lakewood, where she helps pet-parents celebrate, honor, and tell the saga of their non-human family members! She and her husband live in Golden with their 2 cats and box turtle.
Transcript:
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Announcer: This is Pet Life Radio.
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Announcer: Let's talk pets.
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Linda Hall: Hello, my cat-loving friends.
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Linda Hall: Have you ever tried to take a picture of your cat and their eyes glow like they're possessed, or you take this great picture of your little black kitty and it just looks like a black blob?
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Linda Hall: And how do you get them to pose?
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Linda Hall: And oh, we are so fortunate that we met Suzie Inverso, who is a cat photographer.
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Linda Hall: So after we hear from our amazing sponsor, we're going to come back and find out how to get better pictures of our cats and how she does this.
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Linda Hall: And oh, we have so many questions for her.
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Linda Hall: We'll be right back.
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Linda Hall: Hey, it's Linda Hall from 19 Cats and Counting.
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Rita Reimers: And I'm Rita Reimers from 19 Cats and Counting.
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Rita Reimers: You know the expression that cats have nine lives?
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Rita Reimers: Well, what if you can give them one more?
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Linda Hall: With spay and neuter.
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Linda Hall: Spaying or neutering your cat helps them live a longer, healthier life.
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Linda Hall: Welcome back to 19 Cats and Counting.
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Linda Hall: I am your co-host, Linda Hall, here with the ever-gorgeous, my bestest friend in the whole wide world, and business partner, my work wife, according to my husband, Rita Reimers.
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Rita Reimers: She's buttering me up for some kind of favor.
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Rita Reimers: I don't know what it is yet.
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Linda Hall: I told you, I bank them for when I need them.
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Rita Reimers: I just sent you all the flea mints we have.
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Rita Reimers: I don't have any more.
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Rita Reimers: Anyway, I don't want to talk to you, but this is really timely because now you have how many black cats?
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Linda Hall: I don't even know.
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Linda Hall: Thank you for telling me because I lost track.
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Rita Reimers: I have two.
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Rita Reimers: I love all my cats.
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Rita Reimers: The black cats are really hard to photograph.
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Rita Reimers: If you can see the detail in their face when you take a photo, you've got lucky, unless you're Susie who knows how to do it.
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Linda Hall: Unless you're Susie who knows all the tips and tricks.
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Rita Reimers: Tell us how you got started with Crimson Cat Studios.
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Rita Reimers: That's your baby, yes?
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Suzie Inverso: Oh, yeah, hi.
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Suzie Inverso: So I was a human person photographer doing weddings and engagements and stuff for like 20 years.
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Rita Reimers: Wow.
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Suzie Inverso: Back in Chicago and moved here right as the pandemic was starting and tried to kind of pivot so that I could still do that.
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Suzie Inverso: And it just wasn't working, it wasn't working.
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Suzie Inverso: And I hired a business coach and she was like, what do you really want to do?
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Suzie Inverso: And I was like, have photography.
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Suzie Inverso: And it just kind of dawned on me that every couple, every family that I photographed, I was always like, do you have a pet?
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Suzie Inverso: You should bring your pet.
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Suzie Inverso: You should bring your dog.
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Suzie Inverso: You shouldn't have, well, you have a snake.
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Suzie Inverso: Bring them to the session.
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Suzie Inverso: We'll put them in there.
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Rita Reimers: I don't know, I might have to draw the line at the snake, but I get you.
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Rita Reimers: I'm the person at the party.
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Rita Reimers: You invite me to a party.
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Rita Reimers: If you've got a pet, that's where I'll be.
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Suzie Inverso: Yes, exactly.
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Suzie Inverso: I'd much rather be.
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Linda Hall: Rita's in the room with the coats and the cat.
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Suzie Inverso: With the animals, yeah.
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Suzie Inverso: I'm an only child and I grew up with a house full of gerbils and guinea pigs and dogs and it just made all the sense in the world to just specialize in pets.
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Suzie Inverso: That was over two years ago, like two and a half years ago.
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Suzie Inverso: I have a look back, it's been amazing.
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Rita Reimers: I love it.
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Rita Reimers: Somewhere in there, you also relocated to Colorado.
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Suzie Inverso: Yeah, that was right at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Suzie Inverso: It just so happened to fall that we were moving here to Denver.
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Suzie Inverso: That's when everything changed that I was like, well, I'm going to try and do elopements because everybody's doing these micro weddings.
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Rita Reimers: Yeah.
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Linda Hall: Yes.
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Suzie Inverso: I tried to get into that, but because of all the shutting down, I just couldn't meet people face-to-face and stuff.
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Suzie Inverso: Eventually, once everything started opening up again, it was easier to get a lot of my clients from face-to-face events, like pet events and stuff, and those are my people.
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Suzie Inverso: We understand each other.
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Linda Hall: Exactly.
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Rita Reimers: It's funny how the pandemic made a lot of people pivot.
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Rita Reimers: It made us pivot and get rid of the pet sitting, concentrate on the behavior side because nobody was traveling.
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Rita Reimers: It's like nobody was having big weddings, but to be honest, I like working with pets better.
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Linda Hall: I do too.
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Linda Hall: Yes.
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Linda Hall: Yeah, we used to say we should, the clients are not allowed to call anymore.
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Linda Hall: The cats are.
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Linda Hall: Meow once if you need a 30 minute session.
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Linda Hall: Meow twice if you need.
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Linda Hall: We just want to deal with the animals.
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Linda Hall: So I have to tell you, like, I don't know, I haven't photographed animals.
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Linda Hall: Well, other than my own.
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Linda Hall: Yeah, my phone storage is full, but I would say, you know, a dog, sit, stay.
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Linda Hall: A cat though, Susie, a cat.
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Rita Reimers: Sit, stay to a cat.
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Rita Reimers: They laugh at you.
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Linda Hall: I know, something was going on.
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Linda Hall: It was so cute last night.
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Linda Hall: And I'm trying to reach your iPhone and go, wait, don't move, don't move.
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Linda Hall: And the minute I put it up, they move.
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Rita Reimers: I think they know what the camera is.
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Rita Reimers: The minute you pick it up, they stop doing what you want to.
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Rita Reimers: How do you get these great shots, Susie?
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Rita Reimers: Of course, you don't want to give away all the secrets, Susie.
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Suzie Inverso: So I have some secrets for cats.
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Linda Hall: Okay, we're ready.
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Suzie Inverso: Because they don't want to be told what to do.
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Suzie Inverso: So we kind of have to trick them into thinking that they are doing what they want to do.
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Suzie Inverso: Yes, just like with cat behavior training.
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Linda Hall: Yes, exactly.
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Suzie Inverso: So I have my big stock of Churu treats.
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Suzie Inverso: I have catnip spray.
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Suzie Inverso: I get them up high.
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Suzie Inverso: So on my set in my shooting studio, I build a little tower for them so that when we put them up on top, that's where they're happiest.
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Suzie Inverso: And they'll just kind of just hang out there.
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Suzie Inverso: This one here, that bench there that he's gonna put like five feet in the air.
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Rita Reimers: I love it.
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Linda Hall: So the people bring their cats to you as opposed to you going to their homes?
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Suzie Inverso: Most of the time, yes.
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Suzie Inverso: Wow.
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Suzie Inverso: They do come here first.
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Suzie Inverso: We have minimal hiding spaces.
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Suzie Inverso: So if they really need to hide somewhere, they can hide back in their own crate.
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Suzie Inverso: But we lure them out with toys.
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Suzie Inverso: We just play.
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Suzie Inverso: We just make sure it's really fun for them.
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Suzie Inverso: That's amazing.
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Suzie Inverso: Once they kind of warm up to the space, and to the fact that this isn't the vets, that we're going to play and have a good time with them, and that the focus is on them, and they're going to get attention and treats, then they usually will come out and be social.
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Suzie Inverso: There are definitely cats that don't travel well.
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Suzie Inverso: So in that instance, I will come to your home.
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Linda Hall: Okay.
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Linda Hall: We had that back before I got into the behavior.
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Linda Hall: Rita was writing for Catster.
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Linda Hall: I ended up joining her, but they wanted her to come to her editor's home with cats to take these.
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Linda Hall: They were going to shoot these videos.
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Rita Reimers: Well, this was the second time, too.
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Rita Reimers: I had already done it once, and it was pretty successful once, but the cats I took were kittens then.
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Linda Hall: So we easily decided Colby and Simon.
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Linda Hall: They're the greeters.
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Linda Hall: They're friendly.
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Rita Reimers: They never had a stranger.
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Rita Reimers: And Colby had done it before.
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Linda Hall: And Colby had done it before.
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Linda Hall: And then as a backup, we're like, should we bring a third cat just in case?
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Linda Hall: Let's bring Pumpkin.
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Linda Hall: Pumpkin was the star of the show.
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Linda Hall: I think he read the script.
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Linda Hall: I'm really convinced he read the script.
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Rita Reimers: He was 16.
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Rita Reimers: I really didn't think he was going to do well.
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Linda Hall: But I did not either.
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Linda Hall: And the photographer, she was trying to search for Colby who had shoved himself underneath a dresser in about a one inch space that we were afraid he'd escape.
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Linda Hall: Simon literally put himself in the corner.
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Linda Hall: It was heartbreaking.
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Linda Hall: And Pumpkin was like, I'm here for you.
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Linda Hall: And so the photographer said, if I put a party hat, because it was like cats keeping up at night, if I put a party hat and I'm like, all right, here's the deal.
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Linda Hall: I'm going to put this on this cat's head.
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Linda Hall: I'm going to yell go.
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Linda Hall: I'm going to dive and get rug burn on my nose.
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Linda Hall: And you're going to take it now because this is it.
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Linda Hall: Pumpkin sat with that hat on like, yeah, I'm ready for my clothes.
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Rita Reimers: What else do you want me to do?
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Linda Hall: We put little solo cups in front of him.
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Linda Hall: And he's like, whatever you want, babe.
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Rita Reimers: But that's not the usual.
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Linda Hall: But that's not the usual.
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Linda Hall: And again, Colby and Simon who were sure things in our opinion.
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Suzie Inverso: Get it?
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Rita Reimers: Petrified.
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Linda Hall: Petrified.
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Suzie Inverso: Oh, good.
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Linda Hall: So yeah, that was my first thing.
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Linda Hall: Like, how did you accomplish that?
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Linda Hall: Because they're coming into a new space with sights and smells.
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Linda Hall: And yeah.
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Suzie Inverso: Yeah.
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Suzie Inverso: Yeah.
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Suzie Inverso: Just making them, just trying to make it smell nice for them and make them the star of the show.
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Rita Reimers: And the fact that you have cats and you understand cat temperament, that helps a lot, wouldn't you say?
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Linda Hall: Yes.
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Suzie Inverso: Oh yeah.
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Rita Reimers: There's pumpkin.
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Linda Hall: Those of you who can see the video or are watching the video, this is pumpkin with his hat on and his little solo cup and the whole party.
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Linda Hall: And he just sat there like, okay, whatever.
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Linda Hall: Yeah.
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Suzie Inverso: We do a lot of that too where it's just like, okay, put the cat on top of the bench and just hold him there.
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Suzie Inverso: And then when I count up to three, you let go.
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Suzie Inverso: And I'm just like, choo-choo-choo-choo-choo.
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Linda Hall: I hit the floor.
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Linda Hall: I swear I had rug birds.
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Linda Hall: I hit the floor so fast because in my mind, we have a two-second window.
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Linda Hall: If that, I take it, Harrison.
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Linda Hall: And then I was like, oh, I guess I got that rug burn for nothing.
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Rita Reimers: Plus we took them into a home that had pet birds and pet dogs.
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Rita Reimers: They didn't have any cats.
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Rita Reimers: So they had all these other smells to distract them.
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Rita Reimers: So do you make sure that you like sterilized your area and get rid of any previous pet smells, Susie?
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Suzie Inverso: Yeah, I do.
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Suzie Inverso: And there's probably something leftover, like any place that there's been animals.
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Suzie Inverso: But I mop and I vacuum and I try and get like all the fur out.
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Suzie Inverso: I use a fabric backdrop at the moment, so I can take it home and wash it.
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Suzie Inverso: And I just wash it by itself.
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Suzie Inverso: But yeah, it's a nice, easy spot.
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Suzie Inverso: This studio here used to actually be a tattoo studio.
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Suzie Inverso: So it came pretty easy to sanitize.
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Rita Reimers: It was already an extra clean sanitized space.
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Linda Hall: Well, and I'm assuming based on cat behavior that a smaller room is going to be better because a big room is like, I have to explore all this and there might be something there.
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Linda Hall: So if we're doing this at home, too, right?
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Linda Hall: Like we don't want to go out into the middle of the vast expanse.
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Linda Hall: We want to do it in a smaller space if we're trying to purposely get this.
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Suzie Inverso: Yeah.
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Suzie Inverso: And the studio is not big.
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Suzie Inverso: And like I said, minimal hiding spaces.
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Suzie Inverso: So there's not a ton for them to be like brightened of.
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Suzie Inverso: There's not a lot in there that's going to really scare them.
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Suzie Inverso: Sometimes the flash spooks them, but I find that if I reward them when the flash is going off, so I'm giving them a Churu and I'm popping the flash at the same time.
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Suzie Inverso: And I do the same thing with dogs because not all dogs can get spooked by the flash too.
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Suzie Inverso: So I give them a treat and I pop the flash and I give them a treat and I pop the flash.
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Suzie Inverso: And once I realize that they're not reacting, they don't care about that bright light going up at all.
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Suzie Inverso: They just care about the treat machine here.
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Linda Hall: We do that with behaviors.
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Linda Hall: I think that's perfect.
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Linda Hall: If your cat's afraid of the vacuum, say, is that the vacuum?
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Linda Hall: And go, eh, eh, and give a treat and then build up.
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Linda Hall: Right?
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Linda Hall: That makes sense.
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Rita Reimers: Do you?
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Rita Reimers: Now I forgot my question, darn it.
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Rita Reimers: It's okay.
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Rita Reimers: Continue.
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Rita Reimers: It'll come back to me.
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Linda Hall: Let's talk about those black cats.
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Linda Hall: They're not the most photogenic little buggers, but they're adorable.
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Linda Hall: And I have two tiny little black kittens that are so cute and the pictures never do them justice.
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Rita Reimers: I have a couple of good pictures of my black cats, but it's hard.
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Rita Reimers: What's the trick?
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Suzie Inverso: I had a black Labrador right after college, and it was the same thing.
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Suzie Inverso: If you took a picture with a point and shoot camera or your phone, I don't think we did phones back then, but it was just a black shape with two little eyes and it was like no detail in there at all.
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Suzie Inverso: So we have a couple of tricks.
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Suzie Inverso: Most of my indoor stuff that I do is on a black backdrop.
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Suzie Inverso: So getting a black dog or a black cat in here, it's always a fun challenge.
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Suzie Inverso: One of the tricks is of course like a nice big, big light source.
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Suzie Inverso: So if you have like a big picture window or a patio door or something, put them in front of that.
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Suzie Inverso: It doesn't have to be like super direct, like sun shining straight through, but an overcast or diffused light is really good.
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Suzie Inverso: To make them pop off the black backdrop, I actually backlight them a little bit too.
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Suzie Inverso: So I have a light that's 45 degrees in front and 45 degrees in back.
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Suzie Inverso: So they cross each other with the subject in the middle, and that gives them a little highlight to get them off, to differentiate them from the backdrop.
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Suzie Inverso: That's our trick here.
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Linda Hall: One of my big frustrations, I don't know why I didn't think of a light in front is when a cat's in the window, being adorable in the window seat and I take a picture and I can't and it's nothing.
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Linda Hall: It's like, is that a cat?
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Linda Hall: Because the light is coming in the wrong way and it never occurred to me.
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Linda Hall: I just need to put a light in front as well.
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Linda Hall: I feel a little special at the moment, but okay.
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Rita Reimers: That's why she's a professional photographer and you're not and I'm not anymore.
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Rita Reimers: I used to take pictures.
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Rita Reimers: I was a photographer at Children's Photography Studios.
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Rita Reimers: I used to do children.
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Rita Reimers: Those were hard.
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Rita Reimers: I'd rather do cats and dogs any old day.
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Rita Reimers: Do you do a lot of cat and dogs together?
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Rita Reimers: Do you have any trouble doing those?
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Suzie Inverso: How have I done cats and dogs together?
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Rita Reimers: More and more households these days have both.
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Suzie Inverso: I don't think I have.
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Suzie Inverso: I did a dog with a bird.
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Rita Reimers: Oh, how cool.
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Announcer: That was really fun.
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Suzie Inverso: Yeah.
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Suzie Inverso: Yeah.
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Suzie Inverso: Cooper the Golden Retriever and Larry Bird, the green cheeked conure.
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Suzie Inverso: And they were friends, like they're friends.
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Suzie Inverso: So the bird would ride around on the dog's back and sit on the dog's head.
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Suzie Inverso: Just that's what they naturally did.
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Suzie Inverso: So we got that.
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Suzie Inverso: We got a picture of the bird on the dog's head.
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Linda Hall: That's adorable.
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Rita Reimers: I always dreamed of having a pro come here and take all 19 cats surrounding me, but that would be impossible, I'm sure.
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Rita Reimers: Somebody would wander off.
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Suzie Inverso: Yeah, for that many, I would say Photoshop.
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Suzie Inverso: We would do a bunch of different poses with every cat and then just...
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Linda Hall: No, that's great...
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Suzie Inverso: .
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Suzie Inverso: causate them all together.
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Linda Hall: That's amazing, though.
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Linda Hall: That's a good answer.
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Linda Hall: Yeah, I had a professional photographer here from Bloomberg to take pictures.
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Linda Hall: And so I thought, OK, I've got these three neo-naked kittens.
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Linda Hall: They're coming out because I trust them more than my adults who are going to be like, I don't know you as they disappear from view.
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Linda Hall: And I knew that they were going to be right on it.
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Linda Hall: But they're so young, the catnip spray does not work on them.
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Linda Hall: And they wanted a picture with this box of litter.
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Linda Hall: So I'm smearing churro on this box.
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Rita Reimers: And the picture still didn't turn out that good.
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Linda Hall: No, it was awful.
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Linda Hall: And you're trying to get their attention.
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Linda Hall: Look, I just can't even imagine.
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Linda Hall: So when we were like, oh, Susie's a cat for sure.
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Linda Hall: We got to find out, well, all pets.
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Linda Hall: But we got to find out how to do these kinds of things because it was wrong.
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Linda Hall: And I suppose rewards, I mean, we are behaviors.
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Linda Hall: We should have known that, rewards, you know.
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Linda Hall: And inspire them to behave.
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Rita Reimers: When you're in it.
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Rita Reimers: And then it's hard enough to keep a kitten focused, right?
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Rita Reimers: I don't think at that age, they care that much about the rewards.
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Rita Reimers: They just want to explore everything.
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Linda Hall: Yeah, that's true.
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Rita Reimers: Do they tend to, this is what I wanted to ask before, do they tend to stick to their owners like glue or do you ask them to step out so you can be alone with the cat or dog?
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Suzie Inverso: Now, sometimes I do like to, if I can tell that the animal is a little uncomfortable, I do want to start with mom and dad on the set with them.
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Suzie Inverso: That way they can start to be comfortable.
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Suzie Inverso: Sometimes I have mom or dad throwing the toy back and forth on either side of the set.
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Suzie Inverso: Sometimes we do just start with them holding the pet on their lap so that they're comfortable.
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Suzie Inverso: They're getting more comfortable with the flash going off and with this weird woman taking in this big camera thing.
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Linda Hall: Yeah, it's stranger.
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Suzie Inverso: And then as we proceed, I can usually get them to step away a little bit farther, a little bit farther.
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Linda Hall: Awesome.
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Rita Reimers: And we're back with 19 Cats and Counting.
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Rita Reimers: How many do we have now?
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Linda Hall: 30.
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Linda Hall: 32 in our sanctuary.
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Rita Reimers: Our sanctuary is full, we can't take in anymore.
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Rita Reimers: But Susie, that leads me to a question too.
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Rita Reimers: A lot of the sanctuaries, rescues, what have you, they don't have great pictures of their animals on their websites.
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Rita Reimers: What tips can you give them to getting some really good shots that might get them adopted?
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Suzie Inverso: I honestly, well, my first thing that comes into my head is contact your local pet photographer and see if they'd be willing to come in and do some volunteer hours, taking some photos of the harder to adopt animals that you need good pictures for.
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Suzie Inverso: I do that for a couple of rescues around here.
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Suzie Inverso: It's just rewarding and it's fun and it gets me just to spend some time with them.
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Suzie Inverso: Sometimes you have to be quiet and just take your time.
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Suzie Inverso: They're in a new spot, they're really scared.
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Suzie Inverso: Sometimes they don't want to come out of whatever they're hiding under and you just kind of get in there and do your best, but-
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Linda Hall: Photographs are powerful.
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Linda Hall: I mean, I've never seen a cat I didn't want, but sometimes I'm like, aww, and then sometimes I'm like, oh, I want that cat.
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Linda Hall: You know, it's the difference.
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Linda Hall: Honestly, in the photo can make a huge difference.
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Suzie Inverso: Absolutely, and a lot of times, especially in the shelters, just taking like that one picture, like their intake photo is they are scared and they look scared, and their ears are black, and they're cowering, and you can tell, and it does kind of make you go, oh no, I need to save that poor thing.
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Suzie Inverso: But the pictures where they're like, hey, I want to live with you, look how cute I am, those are the more powerful ones that'll get.
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Rita Reimers: I think they appeal to more people who want to take in like an easy cat or dog instead of one that's gonna need a lot of focusing and work.
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Rita Reimers: Which could be the same pet.
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Rita Reimers: The photo taken at a different time would reflect a more true personality.
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Linda Hall: Yes, completely different cat.
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Linda Hall: Yes, exactly.
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Linda Hall: Now, do you find, because there's kind of a joke around here about one of my cats, and I don't know if this is a thing, but the majority of my cats, when I go to try to take a picture, will immediately, they can be doing the most adorable thing.
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Linda Hall: In the minute they see my phone, they go, and we're done.
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Linda Hall: One of my cats, Harley, who has some Maine Coon in her, and is absolutely gorgeous, she just, she knows she's beautiful.
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Linda Hall: And if you pull out my phone, she'll go.
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Rita Reimers: I have one like that.
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Linda Hall: And pose.
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Linda Hall: And pose these faces.
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Linda Hall: And it's like, what are you, yeah, have you found that there are some cats that are just like, oh, you want to take my picture?
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Linda Hall: Okay, Madam photographer, make sure you get my good side.
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Suzie Inverso: Yes.
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Suzie Inverso: So this boy here, that's my boy.
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Suzie Inverso: When I bring out the phone, he does that.
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Suzie Inverso: He turns away.
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Suzie Inverso: He does not want to.
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Suzie Inverso: But if I've got him in the studio and I've got the real camera out and he's the center of attention and he's getting the toys and he's getting the treats, it's totally different.
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Rita Reimers: Oh, sure.
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Rita Reimers: So the attention has a lot to do with how much cooperation you're going to get from your pet.
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Suzie Inverso: Yeah, I think so.
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Linda Hall: Because 90% of the pictures I'm trying to take are, you're doing something cute, hold still.
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Linda Hall: And yeah, doesn't happen.
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Suzie Inverso: You can never catch it.
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Linda Hall: They're like, what?
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Rita Reimers: I wasn't doing anything.
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Linda Hall: Right.
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Linda Hall: Well, and I think a pet photographer adds something extra because I'm looking at this picture of your orange baby there.
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Linda Hall: And how you know, being a little off center, just everything in that picture is like, OK, see, I would have just gone, you know, and centered and there's no.
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Linda Hall: So you're at the black backdrop in the way centered.
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Linda Hall: And so, you know, as much as I'm trying to get tips from you, because we all are going to take pictures of our cats, right?
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Linda Hall: There's more pictures of my cats in my phone than of my husband or children, human children.
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Linda Hall: But I definitely do not want to send the message that, like, we got this, because a pet photographer is going to always be way better.
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Rita Reimers: You can't be creative with a phone camera, not like you can be in a studio, correct, Suzie?
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Suzie Inverso: I think you can be to a certain extent, but knowing how light works is, like, the big important thing.
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Suzie Inverso: Knowing that, like, or that silhouette right there.
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Rita Reimers: I know I love that.
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Suzie Inverso: Turning off the flash, knowing when to turn off the flash and not light from the front.
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Suzie Inverso: Knowing when to only light from the back for something really dramatic like that is really important.
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Suzie Inverso: I was out on a session yesterday, and we were out at, like, noon out in the mountains, and the light, and it's October, or it's almost October.
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Suzie Inverso: And, like, the angle of the light was really, really rough.
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Suzie Inverso: It was just so powerful.
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Suzie Inverso: It was bright, and the shadows were harsh, and it was, like, noon.
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Suzie Inverso: And knowing, like, that when I needed that second light to give a little glint in the eyes, that sort of knowledge is stuff that you, you know, see to put it.
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Rita Reimers: That's awesome.
00:25:00.747 --> 00:25:03.747
Rita Reimers: Did you major in photography, or is this something that's innate?
00:25:03.747 --> 00:25:06.047
Rita Reimers: Is this just a talent you have, or a little of both?
00:25:06.047 --> 00:25:11.627
Suzie Inverso: I majored in music, but I was in, I took all the photography classes and darkroom classes at the same time.
00:25:11.627 --> 00:25:12.567
Linda Hall: I love it.
00:25:12.567 --> 00:25:13.167
Linda Hall: You're artistic.
00:25:13.167 --> 00:25:15.367
Rita Reimers: I miss going into the darkroom.
00:25:15.367 --> 00:25:19.227
Rita Reimers: I used to love going in there and watching the photos develop in front of me.
00:25:19.227 --> 00:25:26.607
Linda Hall: Well, we always talk when we talk to our clients, we are always talking about how cats are corpuscular and their vision really stinks in broad daylight.
00:25:26.607 --> 00:25:27.647
Linda Hall: They're nearsighted at night.
00:25:27.647 --> 00:25:29.167
Linda Hall: They can't see any better in the dark.
00:25:29.167 --> 00:25:34.467
Linda Hall: And then we always say, that's why if you take a picture of your cat in the low light, they look like they're possessed and belong in a horror flick.
00:25:34.467 --> 00:25:37.767
Linda Hall: So, yeah, that light makes all the difference in the world.
00:25:37.767 --> 00:25:42.667
Linda Hall: Your cat can be doing the cutest thing and might sit still if their eyes are glowing and they look possessed.
00:25:42.667 --> 00:25:44.627
Linda Hall: It's not going to be we're not going on the wall.
00:25:45.287 --> 00:25:46.927
Linda Hall: It's just not going to happen.
00:25:48.227 --> 00:25:51.547
Rita Reimers: What's the hardest session you ever have?
00:25:51.547 --> 00:25:54.707
Suzie Inverso: They all present a challenge of some kind.
00:25:54.707 --> 00:25:55.847
Suzie Inverso: All of them do.
00:25:55.847 --> 00:25:59.947
Suzie Inverso: I did have a cat in here.
00:25:59.947 --> 00:26:10.887
Suzie Inverso: Actually, it was like three cats and a dog, and it was my old studio, which was just downstairs from here, and it was a smaller space that didn't have a dedicated closet.
00:26:11.087 --> 00:26:19.247
Suzie Inverso: So I had these fake walls that I had put up that I thought, for sure, no one can squeeze underneath these fake walls.
00:26:19.267 --> 00:26:25.707
Suzie Inverso: One cat got a little too spooked and did get in and thought they were stuck there forever and peed.
00:26:25.767 --> 00:26:27.547
Announcer: Oh, no.
00:26:27.547 --> 00:26:33.347
Suzie Inverso: It was a very easy cleanup, and I totally understood it was just like on first thing, thought it was scrapped in there.
00:26:33.527 --> 00:26:37.567
Linda Hall: That's a high-fear response, like that's high-fear.
00:26:37.567 --> 00:26:38.827
Rita Reimers: I never even thought about that.
00:26:38.827 --> 00:26:43.187
Rita Reimers: Do you have to provide a litter box and things when you've got cats coming in for a shoot?
00:26:43.207 --> 00:26:51.267
Suzie Inverso: I usually don't, unless I know that I'm bringing my cats into work and they're going to be here for a few hours, I'll bring it.
00:26:51.267 --> 00:27:01.107
Suzie Inverso: But no, I usually don't because it's only when that situation happens, which now in my new studio, I have a door that closes on the closet and there's no pay.
00:27:01.667 --> 00:27:03.087
Rita Reimers: So that won't be happening, thankfully.
00:27:03.087 --> 00:27:06.727
Suzie Inverso: Nowhere for them to get stuck or really frightened.
00:27:06.727 --> 00:27:10.407
Suzie Inverso: But otherwise, it's just an easy cleanup if we need to.
00:27:10.407 --> 00:27:12.207
Linda Hall: Comes with the territory.
00:27:12.267 --> 00:27:13.067
Suzie Inverso: Exactly.
00:27:13.427 --> 00:27:18.607
Suzie Inverso: I knew what I was getting into when I took this job, when I decided to go this direction.
00:27:18.607 --> 00:27:19.347
Suzie Inverso: I know the drill.
00:27:19.347 --> 00:27:25.707
Rita Reimers: I'd rather put up with this kind of CRAP than the stuff from The Puppet of America.
00:27:25.947 --> 00:27:30.287
Linda Hall: If you're taking pictures of babies, they might have a blowout all of a sudden, they might spit up on you.
00:27:30.587 --> 00:27:32.407
Linda Hall: I mean, this is life.
00:27:32.407 --> 00:27:33.947
Suzie Inverso: I don't understand babies.
00:27:33.947 --> 00:27:35.207
Suzie Inverso: I don't get children.
00:27:35.207 --> 00:27:37.267
Suzie Inverso: They're not my people.
00:27:37.267 --> 00:27:39.947
Suzie Inverso: So I don't know what to do.
00:27:39.947 --> 00:27:41.447
Linda Hall: I got it.
00:27:41.447 --> 00:27:45.207
Rita Reimers: I used to be a children's photographer, but yeah, kids are not my jam.
00:27:45.207 --> 00:27:47.367
Rita Reimers: Linda's all about children, not me.
00:27:47.367 --> 00:27:50.827
Linda Hall: I was in my years and now I'm like, oh, I still love.
00:27:50.827 --> 00:27:55.267
Linda Hall: Like if you've got a baby, I'm going to snatch it from you and hold it for a while, but then I'm going to give it back to you.
00:27:55.907 --> 00:27:59.047
Linda Hall: Okay, okay, we're a little old for this crap.
00:27:59.047 --> 00:28:02.067
Rita Reimers: If you have a kitten, I'm going to snatch it from you, but if you have a baby, you keep it.
00:28:02.067 --> 00:28:03.707
Linda Hall: Yeah, kittens are my babies.
00:28:03.707 --> 00:28:10.227
Suzie Inverso: People have, they've asked me, they're like, but isn't it easier to take photos of kids because they listen or they understand what you're saying?
00:28:10.227 --> 00:28:12.967
Suzie Inverso: And I'm like, they don't listen though.
00:28:12.967 --> 00:28:18.247
Suzie Inverso: Like I can communicate much better with a pet, with a cat or a dog that I can look at.
00:28:18.247 --> 00:28:18.767
Linda Hall: Exactly.
00:28:19.547 --> 00:28:21.607
Linda Hall: This is amazing.
00:28:21.607 --> 00:28:30.607
Linda Hall: So I wanted to make sure that we say crimsoncatstudios.com and CatFest.
00:28:30.607 --> 00:28:31.807
Rita Reimers: Tell us about that.
00:28:31.807 --> 00:28:32.127
Rita Reimers: Yes.
00:28:32.127 --> 00:28:32.887
Suzie Inverso: Oh, yes.
00:28:32.887 --> 00:28:33.287
Suzie Inverso: Okay.
00:28:33.287 --> 00:28:42.107
Suzie Inverso: So when I first moved here, after stuff had opened back up again in like 2021, I heard about CatFest Colorado.
00:28:42.107 --> 00:28:43.767
Suzie Inverso: And I was like, what is this?
00:28:43.767 --> 00:28:46.787
Suzie Inverso: And it's just a big like cat festival.
00:28:47.227 --> 00:28:51.687
Suzie Inverso: In July, they hold it in Colorado Springs, and in November, they hold it in Denver.
00:28:51.687 --> 00:28:54.967
Suzie Inverso: And it's perfect because it's right before the holidays.
00:28:54.967 --> 00:29:03.787
Suzie Inverso: So it's a really great place to go shopping for gifts for your cat family members or cat loving family members.
00:29:03.787 --> 00:29:04.167
Suzie Inverso: Yes.
00:29:04.167 --> 00:29:07.307
Rita Reimers: We're gonna have to put this on our travel list for next November.
00:29:07.307 --> 00:29:08.587
Suzie Inverso: There's a cat show.
00:29:08.587 --> 00:29:09.367
Rita Reimers: Or October.
00:29:09.367 --> 00:29:11.507
Suzie Inverso: There's like entertainment.
00:29:11.507 --> 00:29:12.607
Rita Reimers: When is the date?
00:29:12.607 --> 00:29:13.467
Linda Hall: November 10th.
00:29:13.747 --> 00:29:17.907
Suzie Inverso: November 10th in Denver at the National Western Complex.
00:29:17.907 --> 00:29:19.167
Suzie Inverso: And it's huge.
00:29:19.167 --> 00:29:20.687
Suzie Inverso: There's adoptions.
00:29:20.687 --> 00:29:24.087
Suzie Inverso: If you are a cat shelter, you get a free booth.
00:29:24.087 --> 00:29:38.267
Suzie Inverso: And so usually what I do before the show opens up is I go around to all those and I hand out my, these little coupons and I'm like, give these to the people who have just adopted a cat, send them over to booth 23 or wherever I am.
00:29:38.267 --> 00:29:41.167
Suzie Inverso: And we'll do a quick portrait session with the new cat.
00:29:41.167 --> 00:29:41.647
Rita Reimers: Nice.
00:29:41.727 --> 00:29:46.567
Suzie Inverso: And that's the, those are the only photos that I take at that show is of the newly adopted.
00:29:46.567 --> 00:29:47.267
Rita Reimers: Nice.
00:29:48.127 --> 00:29:49.867
Announcer: I love that.
00:29:49.867 --> 00:29:51.107
Suzie Inverso: It makes me so happy.
00:29:51.107 --> 00:29:56.307
Suzie Inverso: Like they come and they, they hand me the little coupon and I'm just like, you adopted a kitty.
00:29:57.967 --> 00:30:04.927
Linda Hall: But it'd be a good place if you're at a booth to come to, if you're in the area and okay, you're not going to adopt one of those, which, you know, never say never.
00:30:04.927 --> 00:30:12.327
Linda Hall: But you know, if you're not planning on it, stop by Susie's booth and talk to her about it and get some information and see if this is something that you might want to do.
00:30:12.327 --> 00:30:15.627
Linda Hall: Do you do a lot of these kind of things, festivals and things like that?
00:30:15.627 --> 00:30:17.027
Suzie Inverso: Yeah, I do.
00:30:17.027 --> 00:30:24.187
Suzie Inverso: There's also a couple of dog fairs coming up in October and November that I'm going to be at.
00:30:24.187 --> 00:30:28.667
Suzie Inverso: I usually try and get a booth at any kind of pet fest that is around.
00:30:28.667 --> 00:30:33.987
Suzie Inverso: Because it's like talking to pet people and I just want to hear about your animals and see what they're all about.
00:30:34.207 --> 00:30:42.987
Rita Reimers: Yeah, I love that people get a chance to meet you, Susie, so they can see that your desire to take these photos and your connection to their pets is genuine.
00:30:42.987 --> 00:30:43.727
Suzie Inverso: Oh, yeah.
00:30:43.727 --> 00:30:44.407
Suzie Inverso: Yeah.
00:30:44.407 --> 00:30:48.367
Linda Hall: Well, and I'm sorry, but animals are the best judges of a human character.
00:30:48.367 --> 00:30:49.147
Linda Hall: It's true.
00:30:49.147 --> 00:30:55.527
Linda Hall: We often will be talking to a client and we'll be like, oh yeah, I had this boyfriend, the cat just hated his guts, but we're broke up now.
00:30:55.527 --> 00:30:57.747
Linda Hall: We're like, yeah, you should have listened to the cats.
00:30:57.927 --> 00:30:58.607
Suzie Inverso: That's right.
00:30:58.607 --> 00:31:00.187
Linda Hall: Don't waste your time.
00:31:00.187 --> 00:31:04.247
Rita Reimers: Unlike these women who give up their cats to marry this jerk.
00:31:04.247 --> 00:31:08.867
Rita Reimers: I mean, really, if you had children already, would you give up your children?
00:31:08.867 --> 00:31:10.507
Rita Reimers: But now we're going to go to a different topic.
00:31:10.507 --> 00:31:11.507
Linda Hall: We don't want to get named.
00:31:11.507 --> 00:31:14.347
Linda Hall: Anyway, yes, exactly.
00:31:14.347 --> 00:31:15.107
Linda Hall: Yes.
00:31:15.107 --> 00:31:20.587
Linda Hall: So would you suggest, so okay, I'm going to grab my black kitten and take a picture.
00:31:20.587 --> 00:31:30.727
Linda Hall: Is there anything I want to particularly avoid, like don't do it on that comforter that is mostly white, or don't do it on some of these patterned, or things like that that are going to give us better photos?
00:31:30.727 --> 00:31:31.487
Linda Hall: Yeah.
00:31:31.487 --> 00:31:33.247
Suzie Inverso: I'd say watch a busy background.
00:31:33.247 --> 00:31:35.487
Suzie Inverso: You want to have a nice clean background.
00:31:35.487 --> 00:31:48.347
Suzie Inverso: So if you've got a wall with a bunch of photos on it, all up and down, or a television in the background, move to a different spot, maybe a corner where there's not so much going on in the background.
00:31:48.347 --> 00:31:50.027
Suzie Inverso: That's always a good tip.
00:31:50.027 --> 00:31:52.847
Suzie Inverso: And get down on the floor, get down at their level.
00:31:53.447 --> 00:31:59.587
Suzie Inverso: So if they're down on the floor and you're taking a picture from up here, they're gonna be a little blob on the floor.
00:31:59.587 --> 00:32:07.007
Suzie Inverso: So get down with them so that you can see their whole shape and how tall they are, and your eye to eye with them is pretty much...
00:32:07.007 --> 00:32:10.867
Suzie Inverso: That's the trick of getting the little light in their eyes and the little sparkle.
00:32:10.867 --> 00:32:20.227
Linda Hall: Yeah, my son's significant other the other day took a picture of one of my cats and she did it with the phone, but she turned the phone upside down and put it level.
00:32:20.227 --> 00:32:21.287
Rita Reimers: I was thinking about that.
00:32:21.607 --> 00:32:24.007
Linda Hall: I said, Crash, that's the most amazing picture I've ever seen in my life.
00:32:24.007 --> 00:32:25.147
Linda Hall: It was amazing.
00:32:25.147 --> 00:32:28.087
Linda Hall: And she's like, quit taking him overhead, mom.
00:32:28.087 --> 00:32:29.747
Linda Hall: Quit doing this.
00:32:30.767 --> 00:32:32.947
Linda Hall: Got one tip, I guess.
00:32:32.947 --> 00:32:37.807
Linda Hall: Right now, I have a little black kitten on me who climbed up my leg a minute ago.
00:32:37.807 --> 00:32:39.847
Rita Reimers: And wasn't he just over on the bed?
00:32:40.087 --> 00:32:41.307
Suzie Inverso: I can't see him.
00:32:41.307 --> 00:32:42.067
Linda Hall: I know, exactly.
00:32:42.067 --> 00:32:43.627
Linda Hall: That's what I'm saying.
00:32:44.967 --> 00:32:47.187
Rita Reimers: Oh, there he is.
00:32:47.187 --> 00:32:47.687
Suzie Inverso: He's hard.
00:32:47.687 --> 00:32:48.267
Rita Reimers: He's one of those.
00:32:48.267 --> 00:32:51.827
Rita Reimers: It's hard to take a picture of, because his whiskers are not white either.
00:32:51.947 --> 00:32:55.227
Rita Reimers: Yeah, he's a little black blob.
00:32:55.227 --> 00:32:57.607
Rita Reimers: So that's when you got to do the lighting tricks.
00:32:57.607 --> 00:32:59.727
Rita Reimers: And that's why you go to Suzie's studio.
00:32:59.727 --> 00:33:00.747
Rita Reimers: Yeah.
00:33:00.747 --> 00:33:09.567
Rita Reimers: Do you have any last minute tips, tricks, advice that you'd like to leave us with, Suzie, or other dates that you're going to be out and about where people can meet you?
00:33:09.567 --> 00:33:16.967
Suzie Inverso: I don't know if this will be out in time, but October 19th and 20th, I'm planning on having autumn in studio mini sessions here in the studio.
00:33:17.627 --> 00:33:22.167
Suzie Inverso: If you go to crimsoncattstudios.com, you're in the Denver area, check that out.
00:33:22.167 --> 00:33:24.207
Suzie Inverso: I'll have info at my website.
00:33:24.207 --> 00:33:29.527
Suzie Inverso: Denver Dog Days is October 13th, another one that I'm not sure that this will be out by then.
00:33:29.527 --> 00:33:36.207
Suzie Inverso: Then the Denver Dog Fair is November 23rd and 24th at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds and I'll be there as well.
00:33:36.207 --> 00:33:37.207
Linda Hall: Awesome.
00:33:37.207 --> 00:33:43.227
Linda Hall: You list all your events because, okay, I can't make it for that, but what are you doing in January, Susie?
00:33:43.507 --> 00:33:50.207
Linda Hall: All of this, all I have to do is go to crimsoncatstudios.com and I can see examples of your work.
00:33:50.207 --> 00:33:51.467
Linda Hall: I can find out where you're going to be.
00:33:51.467 --> 00:33:57.107
Linda Hall: I can get information on getting my pet photographed, all of the above.
00:33:57.107 --> 00:34:02.187
Suzie Inverso: Scroll all the way down to the bottom and sign up for our newsletter, The Crimson Chronicle, which I've done.
00:34:02.187 --> 00:34:03.527
Rita Reimers: I'm on that.
00:34:03.527 --> 00:34:04.567
Suzie Inverso: Awesome.
00:34:04.567 --> 00:34:11.107
Suzie Inverso: You'll get all the updates for any time we're having holiday sales or events and stuff like that.
00:34:11.267 --> 00:34:11.547
Suzie Inverso: Yeah.
00:34:11.547 --> 00:34:12.287
Linda Hall: Yes.
00:34:12.287 --> 00:34:13.787
Linda Hall: Awesome.
00:34:13.787 --> 00:34:18.227
Linda Hall: And you're on social media because we're following you.
00:34:18.227 --> 00:34:25.727
Linda Hall: So you will get to see a lot of really cool photos and get a little taste of Susie.
00:34:25.727 --> 00:34:30.927
Linda Hall: I have to say, I don't know if we're planning on saying this or not, but actually Susie was having a behavior issue with her cat.
00:34:30.927 --> 00:34:32.287
Rita Reimers: I just don't even need to be here.
00:34:32.287 --> 00:34:33.447
Rita Reimers: She's just saying everything.
00:34:33.447 --> 00:34:34.607
Linda Hall: No, you're good.
00:34:34.607 --> 00:34:35.787
Rita Reimers: I'm not necessary.
00:34:35.787 --> 00:34:37.347
Linda Hall: We've talked about that before, haven't we?
00:34:37.347 --> 00:34:39.387
Linda Hall: That we have the same thought and we don't actually need to speak.
00:34:40.807 --> 00:34:51.387
Linda Hall: So get a little taste on that social media of all things, Susie and what she's doing and what she's got and reach out to her, contact, all that good stuff.
00:34:51.387 --> 00:34:53.767
Rita Reimers: She has two lovable cats of her own.
00:34:53.767 --> 00:34:54.567
Suzie Inverso: Yes.
00:34:54.567 --> 00:34:55.867
Suzie Inverso: They're very special.
00:34:55.867 --> 00:34:56.567
Suzie Inverso: Yes.
00:34:56.567 --> 00:34:58.487
Suzie Inverso: And they're getting along again.
00:34:58.487 --> 00:35:00.307
Rita Reimers: We actually did a behavior session for her.
00:35:00.307 --> 00:35:00.987
Linda Hall: Oh, that's right.
00:35:00.987 --> 00:35:01.327
Linda Hall: Yes.
00:35:01.327 --> 00:35:03.227
Rita Reimers: A little displaced aggression issue.
00:35:03.227 --> 00:35:03.507
Linda Hall: Yes.
00:35:03.507 --> 00:35:05.327
Rita Reimers: And everything seems to be going better.
00:35:05.327 --> 00:35:06.187
Suzie Inverso: So far so good.
00:35:06.307 --> 00:35:15.887
Suzie Inverso: Fingers crossed because we've got an out of town trip that we're hoping that they'd be like, okay about, and I think it's going to be all right, but we're going to just keep on.
00:35:15.887 --> 00:35:16.007
Linda Hall: Yeah.
00:35:16.387 --> 00:35:22.767
Suzie Inverso: Keep on with the high value stuff when they're together so that they just keep on liking being in the same room.
00:35:22.767 --> 00:35:23.427
Linda Hall: So yeah.
00:35:23.427 --> 00:35:28.967
Linda Hall: So that's why I started to say, so we're in the middle of the session and we find out that she's a cat photographer and we just love her.
00:35:28.967 --> 00:35:30.127
Linda Hall: Her personality is amazing.
00:35:30.627 --> 00:35:35.787
Linda Hall: So I send a private message to Rita, like podcast and she writes back, yes.
00:35:35.787 --> 00:35:38.087
Linda Hall: So then I was dying to wait for us to quit talking.
00:35:38.087 --> 00:35:39.367
Linda Hall: I'm like, okay, we're done.
00:35:39.367 --> 00:35:42.287
Linda Hall: So Susie, will you come to 19 Cats and Counting?
00:35:42.287 --> 00:35:43.127
Linda Hall: And God bless her.
00:35:43.127 --> 00:35:45.607
Linda Hall: She was like, yeah.
00:35:45.607 --> 00:35:46.707
Rita Reimers: She said, I'm there.
00:35:46.707 --> 00:35:47.187
Rita Reimers: I'm there.
00:35:47.187 --> 00:35:48.627
Linda Hall: He snatched her up.
00:35:48.627 --> 00:35:49.487
Suzie Inverso: Yeah.
00:35:49.487 --> 00:35:57.727
Rita Reimers: But look at you people that when you're seeing the video version, just the beautiful photography on her wall, just a little sample of her photographs.
00:35:58.187 --> 00:36:04.287
Rita Reimers: But go to her website, crimsoncatsstudios.com, and see all the gorgeous photos.
00:36:04.287 --> 00:36:09.567
Rita Reimers: I wish I could take photos like that, and I wish you'd lived here so you could come and take some photos for us.
00:36:09.567 --> 00:36:11.167
Suzie Inverso: Who knows what the future will hold?
00:36:11.187 --> 00:36:19.287
Linda Hall: I'll tell you, even if you don't live in the Denver area and you're not going to use Susie, follow her on social media anyway, because who doesn't want to scroll through pictures of cats and dogs?
00:36:19.467 --> 00:36:19.807
Linda Hall: Exactly.
00:36:19.807 --> 00:36:22.247
Suzie Inverso: Especially for a professional photographer, which makes them even cuter.
00:36:22.247 --> 00:36:23.027
Suzie Inverso: A little serotonin boost.
00:36:23.347 --> 00:36:24.007
Suzie Inverso: Yeah.
00:36:24.827 --> 00:36:31.067
Linda Hall: If you're having a bad day, get on her social media and look at babies.
00:36:31.067 --> 00:36:37.047
Rita Reimers: Thank you so much for being on our show and being the awesome photographer and cat lover that you are.
00:36:37.047 --> 00:36:38.327
Rita Reimers: Thank you for having me.
00:36:42.027 --> 00:36:43.387
Announcer: Thanks so much, guys.
00:36:43.387 --> 00:36:44.167
Linda Hall: Thank you.
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Linda Hall: We really appreciate it.
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Rita Reimers: Linda, of course, as always, thank you for being my ride or die, and Mark Winter for giving us this awesome spot on Pet Life Radio.
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Rita Reimers: We are forever grateful as we are to our sponsors as well.
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Rita Reimers: And just don't forget that every day is Caturday.
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Rita Reimers: We'll see you next time.
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