MikeSudomaPhoto

The owner asked if I could check the oil while I was down there lol:

 

I always take a few car pics from this sort of angle - it makes even 'ordinary cars' look dramatic, probably because we nearly always see them from the same sort of height. I don't know why car ad's don't make more use of this effect ........

It's hard to say this will help at all, but I've found that composition is almost a talent in that some are just good at it and others might not be.  It's hard to explain, but when I pick up the camera to my eye, I seem know exactly how to frame any given subject.  Lighting also plays a huge part in composition, and you may need to move either the framing or you and your camera to where the light looks best.  If you can control the lighting, moving or adjusting it's output can alter the composition.  If something isn't well lit, it doesn't matter how well it's positioned in the frame.

Make sure you have a subject in every composition.  The subject is usually what someone's eye will go to first.  If you shoot a fish and the viewer's eye immediately goes to a blue rock behind the fish, you haven't framed or composed the fish photo correctly.  Move the rock, or move to an angle where the blue rock doesn't draw the eye away from the fish, but maybe compliments it.

Avoid cluttered backgrounds or objects in the background that may touch or impose on the subject and make it look awkward.  Especially avoid linear objects in the backgrounds that can run into or through your subjects.

Are there any guides to photo composition, for newbies like myself?

Some great shots there MikeSudomaPhoto, I love the different angles that you've taken the shots.

That's a good tip, I would really like to do some product shots, maybe try different lighting. 

Thanks

All of my photos are of a different perspective to my own. Being 6 ft 3 my tripod is shorter than I am. Though I appreciate the point, I do too go prone for some shots. I think I've even been photographed (my knowledge after the fact) while lying prone setting up a composition. 

great shots mike. i do this too. the lcd helps a lot when im to lazy to get really low also. lol

sometimes i like to lie on the ground and take a complete different perspective, though i do get some funny looks from people