Monitor Calibration

I was hoping I could get some feedback on the below colors of these two photos. I processed them in LR4 and initially thought they looked good on the monitor, which is new for Christmas. I then opened them on a laptop to compare and they looked really good (color-wise) on the laptop and too yellow on my new monitor. Trying to see how they look on other's monitors. I have attempted to calibrate the monitor with the on computer calibration system, but not sure I'm having any luck.
Any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks,
Randall

What's the "on-computer calibration system"? Hopefully you are using a Spyder4Pro or Xrite i1Display Pro and not just eyeballing things

The color looks fine to me, however they are both under-exposed. I checked the image of the pup and it looks like it's under-exposed by 3/4 of a stop. If they look properly exposed at your end then your monitor's brightness is set too high.

Out of the box all monitors have the brightness pumped way up which is great for playing games or using MS Office applications but not so great for photo editing. The best way to confirm that you have it set right is to have some images printed, ensuring that the photo lab has been instructed to turn all auto-corrections off.

Just as an example my Dell IPS monitor needs to have brightness set to around 15% in order for my prints to match what I see on the monitor. If your calibration tool allows you to set a target for brightness start with something around 110 cd/m^2.

Bob,
Thanks for the reply.
Guilty of eye-balling.
Guess I may need to look in to a monitor calibration set-up.
Thanks again.
Randall

colors look fine as well, just a tad bit underexposed maybe a .25-.5 increase

The underexposed look is very likely because you have the new monitor set much too bright. Newcomers to calibration are generally amazed by how far down the luminance needs to be set and thats where the calibration device is a godsend.

Thanks to all for the replies.
Randall