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

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

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

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