Home & Garden Microstock
Americans spend a fortune on home care and garden projects. New backyard planters, redesign of kitchens and makeovers of the entire yard are mesmerizing.  But what keeps them reading is the tasty images that make the green thumb or garage project typhoon interested. Nothing inspires someone to spend time, money, planning and resources after a project like a picture that sells the idea.
Garden projects are a huge market currently. Web sites and magazines are full of green garden tips and redecorating hints and pictures of completed furniture and room makeovers. These images are valuable because they give home owners and garden masters some inspiration. Big green color and clear resolution sells the image. Horticulture is a big, BIG Microstock market.
Cut rate legal imagery used for websites and e-magazines is a fantastic way to
break into microstock photography. Lawn furniture, textiles, garden equipment, seeds, planters, fruits and vegetables, gloves, and various gazebo and canopy
pictures are hot right now. The imagery needed can be instructional and show people how to build things and organize flowers and garden beds.
Green gardens are very popular right now but peple don’t know how to grow plants or fresh fruit from the ground up. They need pictures to show them how to organize supplies, measure planting, tape seeds, irrigate raised gardens and do it right. Pictures of angle of planting, knots of tied sweet pea lines, or other do-it-yourself garden images can instruct in one glance.
Images of home projects can be very good for people looking to find information about home and garage projects using equipment they have not used before. The most difficult part of the project is usually translating the instructions or diagrams into what to do. Images remove the problem and decrease the difficulty of any project drastically.
Gardens with planned borders and seasonal vegetables need education if the first time gardener is to try. Leading lines like garden sprouts, layered planters, and clear-focus micro-greens can make stunning microstock pictures. Curvature in flowers and botanicals always makes a pleasing contrast in composition against right angles of flowerbed borders.
Aside from home projects, garden photography makes a challenging microstock speciality. Plant photography with fresh color and white Micro-lens photography can focus on leaf structure and seed shape. The clarity of these images must be perfect to show differentiation. Follow-up pictures of salads and cooking using these plants makes excellent suite submission material.
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