Catchlights and outdoors...please help

[Photos de l'amour]

Ok, this is really helping me. Thank you all for that.
I will be working on using Manual mode now.

I have one one and I don't think it came out that well.

Let me know what you think...

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[Sw1tchFX]

for the top one, easy on the contrast, the color is a little nuclear.

for the bottom one, in your raw converter, burn in the highlight areas a tad, dodge the shadows. The family is the last thing my eye goes to because everything else is brighter.