I used a series of pictures of the lamp in my room for this, placing it in a different position in the frame and studying its relationship to the background.
The second shot where the lamp is in the middle, I chose as my second favourite as even though being central gives the lamp a prominent place in the picture, it seems to get lost in the space around it, like it's sinking into the middle and you cant look around the whole picture as you are too drawn into the centre. My favourite, the first photo, is placed closest to the bottom left corner, and the rays of light guide the eye from one side of the frame to the other. It uses the background to its advantage to draw your eye around to other areas rather than working against it.
The last two pictures both work by drawing your eye around the rays of light away from the subject and back again but the lamps position being slightly off centred in both feels awkward.
When a subject is placed on a background that has no other focus points, its very important to think of the best positioning for it, as it can greatly change your opinion of the shot by how they interact with each other. Sometimes a central shot is just what you need as you want the attention drawn to only the subject, but at the same time you don't want to over emphasise its presence if the background is important in supporting its subject.
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