Kyle,

I believe your last picture has the best composition.

Ones' eye comes from the bottom left corner into the subject and out the top right corner. The backround being black sets off the frog and flower head very nicely. The flower head supports the natural look to the frogs setting. The only thing wrong is the frog is dead centered in the picture. If this picture has been cropped I would go back to the original and extend the bottom frame down a little, the left frame extend to get all of the flower head tip. Then I would lower the top frame a little and move the right frame in a little. thus moving the frog in effect up and to the right enough to get away from the "BULLS EYE" effect that people tend to do with their pictures, waterfalls, and other design projects. FORMAL BALANCE is very hard to do and generally looks STATIC. When possible, lead the eye in and out of the picture and in a clockwise or counter clockwise direction. it gives flow and not dead end your eye. The same holds true to any design.

Sorry for being so lengthy, hope this can help

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