Anyone familiar with CS3 LabColor mode

[m_mphotography]

I'm wondering if anyone here is familiar with postprocessing images in CS3 in the LabColor Space?? I've been dabbing into that a little bit, with the help of a tutorial and was wondering if those of you who are familiar with it have any feedback on that process?? Seems like the colors are richer when you postprocess in LabColor and then convert back to RGB. Tell me what you think on this image....
I normally work my images in ADOBE RGB (1998) and for posting on here, I convert to sRGB, so the first image here is that one I worked in Adobe RGB (converted to sRGB for posting)


the second image is the image that I converted to LabColor, processed in LabColor and then converted back to ADOBE RGB (well, sRGB for posting here)....what do you think??

[amadjuster]

The color looks more saturated.

[JohnT]

In the first one, the skin tones look natural. In the second one, the tones are too orange IMO. I like the shot though.