I like your crop more than mine, as it makes the image stronger. I already cropped it a LOT.
The advantage of the small camera is portability, but I sorely missed my longer lenses. In retrospect, I should have brought a more capable camera with me. I learned that lesson… And this is one case where I would have been much better off with my Nikon + zoom. As the oxen got closer, I was about to run out of vertical zoom, which wasn’t as easy to control on the Panasonic Lumix…
You lost me here; I did change my curve to make it closer to yours, but why does my display look so completely different? Is it because of Windows vs. Mac?
At the top, you have an adjustable top box at the left that is set to RGB. Mine is different. Is this because my image is in JPG, not RAW ?
I suspect you are working with the “gamma” setting. Other than how to spell it, I am lost. I’ve never deliberately adjusted it, as far as I know, although when I adjust the tone curve, that seems to be related. I did find this explanation:
I think I should start a new thread asking about how to adjust “gamma” in PhotoLab, including how to do so, and why to do so. Most of the technical things I deal with I think I have a rough idea of how to do so, and provided my display is calibrated, I get to see the effects of making changes. Not so with “gamma”. 
Me bad…