too dark?

me and my husband

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Nice shot but the Air vent (above) or is it a speaker plus the blotch on the right are bugging me. Could easily be cloned out. I think the picture could be better cropped too but all the makings are there for a great shot.

like this?

Does it look better?

It looks a bit underexposed, and seems to be lacking some contrast and saturation. I used Curves and just clicked on what I felt should be the whitest/brightest point with the white dropper and the darkest/blackest point with the black dropper. After doing that I bumped up saturation by 20.

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Hard to tell how far to go with such a compressed image, but the above was just a 1 minute edit before heading off to work just to give you some ideas.

Thank you