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Bones poster

Bones colour palette

Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson · Shot by Flavio Martínez Labiano

Bones, shot by Flavio Martínez Labiano, runs natural and warm, measured across 64 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and cyan. The single most common colour is near black (#0c0e0e), covering 12.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.438 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.392 — more saturated than 90% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.306 — brighter than 1% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the Bones page →

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