Help with some images

I did a shoot over the weekend with my new upgrade (EOS 70D), almost all of the images turned out great and the client loves them. But these two gave me trouble in the editing, and I'd really appreciate some advice on what could be done with them... if anything.
The third image will be posted by itself.

ok... most kiderific facial expressions...

How did you lighten the image up? What tool did you use. That would really help guide you through recovering these images. Plenty to work with here....

Croasdail wrote in post #19131346
ok... most kiderific facial expressions...

How did you lighten the image up? What tool did you use. That would really help guide you through recovering these images. Plenty to work with here....

These are the originals, no editing.
I can upload my edit attempts though.

I've mainly been using Lightroom but have been recently trying to learn Photoshop CC as I'm sure with those tools I'd be able to fix and edit these as I'd like to, with no limitations.
Here are two of the images, my editing attempts and I'll post the 3rd alone.

The third

The one shot at ISO 640 is overexposed and a tad blue. The light is flat, as if it was a cloudy day or you were in the shade of the house. Pop the contrast up a little. A little sharpening might help.

The second is underexposed. Fix this and adjust the levels slider to cut off unused tones on the white end. Sharpen a bit and add a bit of contrast. This one is also slanted. Some people don't mind. But I always have an image in my mind of the subjects sliding off the side.

Lastly, for both, people want to see faces. Cut off their legs.

It used to be that it was a bad idea to post modified versions of shots unless the poster had a note that image editing was okay. There were some heated comments made when people ignored it. Accordingly, I didn't post my idea of how they could be improved.

In the third one, it looks like you needed to engage in crowd wrangling. Somebody camera left was attracting your subjects' attention. So three of them weren't looking at the camera. A well-meaning parent, perhaps. Or someone brandishing a smartphone. But they didn't do you any favors. In situations like this, I tell the subjects to look at the smartphone and then that it's my turn.

joedlh wrote in post #19131608
The one shot at ISO 640 is overexposed and a tad blue. The light is flat, as if it was a cloudy day or you were in the shade of the house. Pop the contrast up a little. A little sharpening might help.

The second is underexposed. Fix this and adjust the levels slider to cut off unused tones on the white end. Sharpen a bit and add a bit of contrast. This one is also slanted. Some people don't mind. But I always have an image in my mind of the subjects sliding off the side.

Lastly, for both, people want to see faces. Cut off their legs.

It used to be that it was a bad idea to post modified versions of shots unless the poster had a note that image editing was okay. There were some heated comments made when people ignored it. Accordingly, I didn't post my idea of how they could be improved.

In the third one, it looks like you needed to engage in crowd wrangling. Somebody camera left was attracting your subjects' attention. So three of them weren't looking at the camera. A well-meaning parent, perhaps. Or someone brandishing a smartphone. But they didn't do you any favors. In situations like this, I tell the subjects to look at the smartphone and then that it's my turn.

Yeah on the last one, that was my friend, their grandma and she and her husband were trying so hard to get the youngest to smile and/or laugh, unfortunately that did have 1 or 2 or 3 or all of their attention in a lot of shots. I'm still new to family/multiple people sessions and my ADHD kicks in and I don't think about what I need to tell them what to do or I don't want to be rude and tell the adults to knock it off
I'll definitely remember those things from here on out and I will use those tips you gave