Black and White Photography and Questions

Image 1

 original

 `BC

Curves

Levels

Image 2

original

BC

Curves

Levels

1. The best tool that worked the best for the first image is curves

2. The best tool that worked the best for the second image is levels

3.The tool i liked using the most is levels

4.I think it made the first picture looked better. The contrast as nice for the first picture and the texture  as well as the value which gave a gray tone to the pictures