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Beautiful Boy poster

Beautiful Boy (2011) colour palette

Directed by Shawn Ku · Shot by Michael Fimognari

Beautiful Boy (2011), shot by Michael Fimognari, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 194 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#31302c), covering 15.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.707 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.181 — more saturated than 17% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.422 — brighter than 55% of ranked films

Measured across 194 frames. See the frames on the Beautiful Boy page →

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