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Dark Water (2005) colour palette

Directed by Walter Salles · Shot by Affonso Beato

Dark Water (2005), shot by Affonso Beato, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 59 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#32302b), covering 18.3% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.812 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.162 — more saturated than 11% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.329 — brighter than 4% of ranked films

Measured across 59 frames. See the frames on the Dark Water page →

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