This month: Improve composition Compose yourself for photographs that are worth looking at more than once

Master creative use of long exposure to capture the dynamics of nature, says Karolina Konsur

Digital Camera readers show how they’ve been getting creative, submitting images across a range of genres

Charlotte Beutler’s still-life photo comes under our microscope

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

One reader, one pro… creative studio lighting effects under the direction of James Paterson