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Anon you don't use these tools in the moment, you use them after the fact.
>Any geometrical analysis, any reducing of the picture to a schema, can be done only (because of its very nature) after the photograph has been taken, developed, and printed — and then it can be used only for a postmortem examination of the picture. I hope we will never see the day when photo shops sell little schema grills to clamp onto our viewfinders; and the Golden Rule will never be found etched on our ground glass.
So our compositional rules are only applicable AFTER composing. However, we can use a few of them to adjust an existing composition in real-time. These are the ones that are easy to spot like baroque/sinister diagonals and rule of thirds etc.
Basically just take whatever photo looks good to you in the moment. Turn off grids. I leave the level on but that's just for video.
