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To me looks more real, blurred backgrounds is not a problem for realism, almost every camera can do it and it's just a technique to gain focus on the important thing and avoid distracting things on a picture.

Being completely honest if i see this picture in any situation even if they ask me if it is a montage i could not assure it's a montage and that my friend it's the goalXD.

And I am a fan on low contrast blacks on this kind of portraits ^^.

To clarify the other picture looks more a casual picture from a phone, and this last one looks more like a professional photographer made the picture and edited it,

but because of the posture, clothes, location, in my opinion, is what make it look more like the second one, a prepared photo.