Poor happy :(

I enjoy messing about with photoshop, so I thought I'd have a go. What I've tried to do is take the original picture and try to make the image seem less bright (was the original over exposed?). This was achieved by layering a Curves adjustment layer (a very gentle s-curve), a Monochrome channel mixer layer and a warm photo filter. The image has also been sharpened, but also a very slight gaussian blur was applied to smooth out a little bit of the noise.

I think its a bit noisy and grainy to do the subject justice though :(.