Looking like an idiot is a fear one needs to get over if getting the shot is the goal rather than looking cool.
Using an Electronic Viewfinder in bright sunlight is a great idea if you have one, but otherwise using the monitor screen on the back of the camera is just fine and no different than looking down at the groundglass on a classic twin lens reflex, or a Hasiblad for that matter.
One need not look any farther than Mark Hirsch’s That Tree project to realize that composing using a viewfinder rather than a monitor is not necessary to take amazing photos.
Hirsch photographed a single tree and its immediate surroundings for a year using an iPhone 6. No EVF. The results are outstanding. Are you going to say he looked like an idiot?
