in my opinion, either you or the camera brightened the image too much -- it doesn't look overexposed to me as much as it does overbrightened. When important parts of the picture are overbrightened, there is not enough differentiation in texture to the eye.
Her arms and face and the top of his head suffer this problem. The brightness of the top of his head, for example, sort of blends in with the brightness of the fence behind him. Her arm has virtually no form or texture. Her face goes from very bright to very dark without much transition.
Have you tried the Shadow/Highlight adjustment? You would want to do this on the original, not the brightened one. (You'll probably have to play with the default values of Amount and Radius since it almost always makes the picture icky.) If you work in RGB, you'll probably want to use a luminosity layer (cmd-J to copy layer, then change the blending method from Normal to Luminosity). I don't know if this would work, but it's worth a try if you have not yet done so.
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