Thanks for the advice about buning and dodging.... ending up with the following which is better than the preset actions I had which made the photo took fake:
Im not a fan of blurring objects but had to do it for the background and decrase the saturation of it so that it does not take the focus away from the lady. What do you guys think of this edit? I'm still unsure of what the correct
exposure/brightness is, even though I shot it in Manual with close to EV0. Also, what is the correct WB? I usually select "Auto" instead of "As Shot" and when I shoot, I just leave it on AWB.