Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

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

Equine photographer www.carysjonesphotography.co.uk

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