First family portrait. C&C please

All fixed

I'm sorry to say, but this looks like a poorly edited snapshot. The perspective you chose to shoot from has some potential, but the table is distracting and the family sitting at an angle to the camera doesn't quite work. Can we see the original background? Some of us might be able to provide to editing.

All fixed.

This is by no means a finished product. Just some quick cloning to get rid of the power lines and to reproduce some areas of the sky and fill in his hair. Some auto tone adjustments, but otherwise not really how I'd correct the color. Just wanted to show you want might be done to save the background rather than painting it a flat blue. I airbrushed some extra blue into the sky, as well. You could also consider putting in a sky from another photo into the background using masks.

If he is not deployed yet, I'd retake the photo and tell her I'd like to have a better setting.

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I find the wooden pillar behind the guy on the right's head very distracting

The OP removed the original. I'll wait till she tells me to take down the photo before doing so.

I agree. The pillar is distracting, but without it you'd have no real context that they are in a room. It would look even more like they were cut out of their setting and pasted onto a sky background.