It helped me grow personally and turned me in (A) / into (B) a confident and optimistic person who looks forward to new things rather than shying away from them..
In spite of (A) / Despite of (B) our best efforts, a couple of deliveries in an over would either be full tosses or wayward, for which we would be promptly pulled up and reprimanded.
In a backhanded way, though, this turned out to be beneficial, because “the pictures had all been taken with the same instrument over the years, and this made it much easier to collaborate (A)/ calibrate (B) and digitise,”
The correct answer is C