Challenge and Selection   I was interested in photography since childhood . But , in India a kid pursuing photography as hobby is   looked down upon and doomed to fail in his future . Hence , I pursued engineering as everyone else . To   be easier on myself , I was interested in the gizmos and paraphernalia , and had a skill for coding and   hence pursued computer science engineering . Post engineering , I bought myself a mid - level dslr and   started clicking passionately . I clicked 100 straight days in manual mode and acquired plenty of photos .   Few were great by luck , but most of them were worse with no purpose of keeping them in my hard   drive . I started showing my photos ( respectively good ones ) to my friends and colleagues and they each   said how I should improve and what is lacking in the photographs which I made . 

 The challenge was to somehow improve my photos and make them liked by my social circle . I chose the   same set of environment and similar scenario to click images but with a twist in them . The tool I used   was the mind - mapping where I jotted down various elements which could have gone wrong . Starting   from color of the image to positioning of the subject with respect to the negative space . 

 Application   I then short listed the major parameters I can change and the element which I could improve upon   instantly was the vantage point . Vantage point is the viewing angle of a person . So , I started changing   the vantage point of my camera . Sometimes I will click from the flat ground and other times I would   raise my hand high in the air to get a birds ’ eye view . 

 Insight   Over the period of next hundred days I changed my vantage point and started clicking again . The image   quality had not changed much but now the same set of friends and colleagues started liking the images .   This changed the people opinion towards the images . The color and the contrast were still off but they   found something different and since they had never seen such a vantage point , most of my viewers   started liking the images . I noted that people liked something which is much different then what they   see usually . 

 Post my insight of changing the vantage point , I worked my scene with various other parameters . I   created an arrow diagram making those parameters inter - dependent to each other and what to do   when I need to work the scene . 

 Approach   Mind mapping helped me chart out what steps I needed to improve in my image and to date I use the   mind map technique to work my scene and get the best results out of it . Starting with where the sun is   located , where should I place my subject , where should it ’s shadow fall , whether I want the shadow in   my frame , what ’s in the background , whether the negative space is distracting , whether I can follow the   1/3rd rule or the s - curve to improve the image and finally whether my ISO , aperture and shutter speed   are rightly set . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Challenge and Selection   I was interested in photography since childhood . But , in India a kid pursuing photography as hobby is   looked down upon and doomed to fail in his future . Hence , I pursued engineering as everyone else . To   be easier on myself , I was interested in the gizmos and paraphernalia , and had a skill for coding and   hence pursued computer science engineering . Post engineering , I bought myself a mid - level dslr and   started clicking passionately . I clicked 100 straight days in manual mode and acquired plenty of photos .   Few were great by luck , but most of them were worse with no purpose of keeping them in my hard   drive . I started showing my photos ( respectively good ones ) to my friends and colleagues and they each   said how I should improve and what is lacking in the photographs which I made . 

 The challenge was to somehow improve my photos and make them liked by my social circle . I chose the   same set of environment and similar scenario to click images but with a twist in them . The tool I used   was the mind - mapping where I jotted down various elements which could have gone wrong . Starting   from color of the image to positioning of the subject with respect to the negative space . 

 Application   I then short listed the major parameters I can change and the element which I could improve upon   instantly was the vantage point . Vantage point is the viewing angle of a person . So , I started changing   the vantage point of my camera . Sometimes I will click from the flat ground and other times I would   raise my hand high in the air to get a birds ’ eye view . 

 Insight   Over the period of next hundred days I changed my vantage point and started clicking again . The image   quality had not changed much but now the same set of friends and colleagues started liking the images .   This changed the people opinion towards the images . The color and the contrast were still off but they   found something different and since they had never seen such a vantage point , most of my viewers   started liking the images . I noted that people liked something which is much different then what they   see usually . 

 Post my insight of changing the vantage point , I worked my scene with various other parameters . I   created an arrow diagram making those parameters inter - dependent to each other and what to do   when I need to work the scene . 

 Approach   Mind mapping helped me chart out what steps I needed to improve in my image and to date I use the   mind map technique to work my scene and get the best results out of it . Starting with where the sun is   located , where should I place my subject , where should it ’s shadow fall , whether I want the shadow in   my frame , what ’s in the background , whether the negative space is distracting , whether I can follow the   1/3rd rule or the s - curve to improve the image and finally whether my ISO , aperture and shutter speed   are rightly set .
### Output: 