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Cow (2022) colour palette

Directed by Andrea Arnold · Shot by Magda Kowalczyk

Cow (2022), shot by Magda Kowalczyk, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 47 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and green. The single most common colour is near white (#f9f9f9), covering 14.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.652 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.108 — more saturated than 5% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.488 — brighter than 91% of ranked films

Measured across 47 frames. See the frames on the Cow page →

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