I would post the two together.

I think it needs some cropping to reduce the distractions.

I think too much saturation - hard to tell with this low res post.

Tough shooting in such bright sun. If you can use a flash for fill.

I think its fine as is. Face has so much character, this works well. However, you have some disinterested folks in the background. If that's OK as a capture of the scene as is, leave it.
If I were to crop I'd eliminate the yellow shirted man on left entirely, and crop from the right just enough to eliminate the skin from the woman in the blue dress.
Scott G

I think Scott is right in showing that a closer crop works better. The lighting is tough with the strong contrasts.

I guess I am tainted by what HDTV looks like in some of my photos contrasty,maybe a lil over saturated due to the fact I shot this in JPEG not raw,but I made the jump to RAW as of today.
I took some photos of a friend and PP with DPP and wow is all I can say,I do have a copy of photoshop cs3 maybe Ill give that a try.