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

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

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

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

Wendy Evans goes through the techniques required to shoot train stations after dark, when metering the variable light is a challenge