Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

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

Still raining outside? Then it’s time to get creative with overlay shooting modes and Wendy Evans

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

Here are the top ten images uploaded to Photocrowd from Round Ten, Open, with comments by the AP team and our guest judges