I would love to buy that one, but I am afraid there would be a divorce if I spent $1000 on a monitor right now. If I have to though I will start saving my pennies. :)

I have been on the phone with Apple for hours over several days. They all have different ideas and don't seem to know much more than I do..... Like when I bought this they said I could link these two computers. I can but it doesn't work well. I was on the phone for 4 hours with another tech trying to get it to work, then another hour with another sales person who had some personal knowledge who is the one that said to buy another monitor but that is where my eyes started to glaze over when he was explaining why I need a more expensive monitor and not to buy a cheap one. To make sure it is fast enough and to make sure that it has a high enough resolution. Yes I am using the one with an M1 chip.

Thank you. Maybe I am using it mirrored. I will google how to do it extended. I will have to get a different monitor though because my wifi doesn't work all the time and keeps cutting in and out and even with spending a whole morning with tech support and buying $80 worth of cables they would not play nice together connected via the cables.

Thank you.

Thank you for responding. I can get the image to fill the screen on the imac by doing that but the quality is very poor. I know I am going to have to buy another monitor and connecting the laptop to the desktop I have isn't going to work. But I really don't understand why if they both share the same resolution it doesn't fill the screen on the desktop when viewed at the same resolution. Is it because the smaller screen has less pixels? So if I buy a new monitor won't I have the same problem? The tech guy is saying no. I don't want to spend $400-$500 on a monitor to be in the same place I am now.

I bought this Macbook Pro thinking I could use the monitor on my old 27 in imac mid2011. I can use it but the image size is exactly the same as that on the laptop. I can fill the screen by reducing the pixels but that degrades the image. The laptop has a display of 13.5 inch (2560x1600) My question is if I buy another monitor that is 27-inch (2560 x 1440) which the desktop is, am I going to have the same problem? The apple tech seems to think that I won't, but that doesn't make sense to me. Can anyone give me some recommendations. I mostly use my computers for photoshop.
Thank you.

I love the colors and how you have processed this. Yes the rocks are wonderful, but so is that sky.

You can start as many threads as you have pictures you want critiqued. I wouldn't over do it, but there is no rule about how many or how often you can post. Just one photo per thread, to keep it simple.

Your fine. The other picture is identical and anyone commenting will be commenting on it.
I understand now the angles. :)

There is a lot of detail in this shot. To my eye you have over sharpened a little.
I am a little bothered by the angle. I can't tell if he is standing on a waterfall or you have just tilted the camera.
That being said I like that he is coming into the frame at an angle. I don't know if it was cropped less so what is going on with the water
is more clear would help. Maybe others will weigh in on this.

In this forum you are only suppose to post one photo at a time. If you have multiple photos please
post them separately. This allows full attention to go to one image at a time. It makes the
forum run smoother and is less confusing.

I would love to see a larger version of your bear. Hit save original when uploading and that will allow us to enjoy and comment more accurately on your photo.

The top of the palm tree would be blurred, but the trunk in the same focal plane should be just as sharp as your bird. If you want to tell the story of a worm and bird I think you need the nose of the worm in your photo.

I like the extra space, but I am not crazy about the extra birds that are in focus. If I had to rework I would go somewhere between the two. If I had to choose it would be the first because I believe it is more compositionally pleasing. It is a little tight for my taste, but you lose the composition with the second. The first just needs a little more room at the top and bottom to be perfect. :)

It made me smile, so I think if it provokes a response it is a success. :) I wonder if you could bring out the grain a bit in the wood.