Quote Originally Posted by SmartWombat
I see a mismatch between the action and the blur and sharp areas of the image that makes my eyes hurt, literally it gives me a haadache !
I can see that

What you've done with what appears to be a diagonal blur...
It was an attempt to match the angle of falling.

The second one is almost possible if you'd used a slow shutter speed and flash to stop the motion. Except you have blur before and after the flash (or to left and righ tof the sharp image) while most SLRs have either 1st curtain or 2nd curtain sync (I can't say all).

It doesn't work for me.
Yet
Aaah...I think you're looking it from a realistic, whether-it's-technically-possible point of view

Definitely there is a possibility to do it in photoshop, it can work.
But I think it's easily overdone, and hard to apply so it's not disturbing.
I can agree to the easily-overdone part.

Personally I think though, a photo like what I've shown, is no longer mainly for truly reporting an event. It becomes...it's like those action scenes, fight scenes that you see in the comic books In a way, I think it's not much different from enhancing the colors of a photo regardless of what the subject matter actually looks like in the real world at the time the photo was taken, or even, for some, turning a photo into a painting