Here's a thought: In PS, add a new layer; fill it with a dark beige brown; use color burn blend mode. Select outfit, and mask everything but the white clothing. Then clip a desat adj layer to the color burn layer and totally desat. Adjust the opacity and FILL amounts of the color burn layer. Here's what I got…   Posted: 10/09/2021 16:47:14

What adorable babies! Love the facial expressions. Witta, you came up with a good fix for the whites.   Posted: 10/10/2021 11:44:55

Beautiful Babies. I feel like the lighting is off a little. The baby on the right, their clothes is blow out. There is Lots of shadows. I changed the color of the babies clothes on the right. Same thing that Witta talked about. I used da radial tool in camera raw around the babies.   Posted: 10/11/2021 22:06:54

Isn't it funny how the photographer may not like a photo from the technical standpoint, but the parents love it. They are looking at the expressions and mood of the image only, which is what they really wanted to capture. So you achieved that objective here!

I agree that the lighting is not great for this photo and attempting to leverage the blown out portions for a high key effect doesn't work well here in my opinion. I went in a different direction.

In Lightroom, I used a portrait preset for medium skin tones labeled PM09 to see if it would reduce some of the highlights on the skin. I then used the adjustment brush to reduce the highlights on the crouch area of the baby in the white outfit. I than adjusted the tone curve towards the dark and converted the photo to black and white. I then cropped it to an 8 x 10 format to focus more on the babies and less on the background. I think the overall effect is much more soft and baby-like and could possibly produce a nicer print. You may want to experiment more with a black and white version to see if that helps.
  Posted: 10/12/2021 07:05:42

I'm with the group - these babies are adorable! You just have to love these expressions and it's easy to see why the parents love your image. The lighting is a little problematic but the group has provided some very good suggestions for addressing it.   Posted: 10/14/2021 09:53:59

I preferred the monotone of Denise's version, so I tried taking your original into Topaz BW, Opalotype, Hand Tinted Cream and played with the various sliders until I got most of the hot spots to dim a bit. I also liked the original red tones, so I applied a blue filter on pinkish paper.

This is an adorable image. I can see why the parents liked it. The important part of the image is the children, not the supporting stuff! Love it!   Posted: 10/18/2021 14:58:11