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

James Abbott mimics shooting, editing and even darkroom effects in Photoshop to give his shots a creative finish

Using Lightroom, Sean McCormack shows how it’s done

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

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

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