challenge
Most cameras use an automatic process to set the colour temperature of a photo or video known as White Balance. However, this is often inaccurate or unreliabale. Photographers & filmmakers would usually lock this to a manual setting for more control but determining the proper white balance can very challenging and intimidating.
The challenge then was to find a way to solve this problem for both beginner/hobbyist and professional photographers and filmmakers.
process
I reached out to Satnam, my friend of 8 years who is an iOS developer, pitched the idea to him and we went straight to work. Over the course of a week or two, during my free time, I put together some ui and collaborated with Satnam on how best to utilize the iOS APIs to read color temperature accurately.
Outcome
KEV utilizes the technology in iPhones, which has a higher accuracy level determining the colour temperature of a scene. We employed this along side other features to design and build a simple and beatiful white balance meter for creators.
We also included other features like the ability to adjust the white balance reading from KEV for fine tuning and others like switching camera FOV, type and also saving a reading.
