Why don't you have any support or classes for your Macbook Pro? I bought a MBP laptop back in 2010 and it was scary at first but gradually I did learn how to use it, have you tried looking on Youtube for videos that can help you? One of the cool things I like about Mac's is that you are much less likely to get a virus or get hacked on a Mac so you don't need to buy any anti-virus software. I need to buy another computer, mine is 12 years old now lol! My next computer will still be a Mac even though it's a pain to learn a new operating system. May I ask how much your Macbook Pro cost you?

In an earlier comment I included a couple example images chosen mostly because they were recent, but this morning it occurred to me to pull out an older one to illustrate something specific. The fact is that I shoot differently when I expect to edit the capture later. Yes, I capture in RAW and that is different but also I expose differently. In particular, I expose to to the right. In fact, my A6500 camera has an exposure setting that does this automatically. In this mode, the camera scans the scene and sets the exposure as high as possible without over-exposing any of the samples.

I would not expose like this unless I intended to do my own post-processing because so much of the image would simply show up as black - as illustrated in the example below. The sensor in my camera provides fourteen bits of intensity when I shoot RAW, however, and with all of that extra information I expect to be able to pull out much more detail. I could, using HDR get even more detail, but in this case I expected just a single exposure to suffice.

In the examples, the illustration of JPEG right out of the camera is a quite small file - only 440 KB while the image after my post-processing of the RAW file is nearly 23 MB. The reason is that the custom-processed file includes so much more detail, constructed out of the lower six bits for each pixel that are simply discarded in creating the JPEG file.

No doubt, if I had exposed without expecting to simply accept the JPEG image I would have set the exposure higher and simply accepted the penalty of washing out many of the brightest lights, turning them white instead of the many colors. I notice that in fact, the JPEG processing by the camera does actually turn white some of the brightest blue reflections in the foreground.