So, Minnesota would rather people not be able to advance themselves without the officiating organization paying a fee, first? Do libraries have to pay a fee to lend books? Do documentaries put together by universities have to pay a fee first? If I move into the state and give away old college text books, do I have to pay a fee first? http://www.forbes.com/sites/evapereira/2012/10/19/minnesota-bans-free-online-education/
Comments
Plus I have always loved digital image manipulation. I majored in art in college, specifically photography, but because it was the mid-late 90s, the only class we got was on Photoshop 2. And the instructor was trying to teach it out of the manual he had clearly never read, so I wound up teaching much of the class I paid to take. Very disappointing. Although it did lead to the very epic argument with my advisor about what is photography. She and I didn't see eye to eye on any of it.
I was more a photojournalism/human experience sort of person, and she was one of those who hand-colored her B&W prints of small children sharing toys and shit. She had the nerve to tell me that if a photo was edited on a computer, it was no longer real. But oh, perfectly ok for her to pastel paint a fake life. Needless to say, I had a new advisor the next day.
snort
If I can do the exact same thing in the photo lab (like solarization, etc) its still photography. It changes to digital art when I manipulate the actual scene, layout, or make a change I could not make in a lab.