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Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince poster

Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince (2009) colour palette

Directed by David Yates · Shot by Bruno Delbonnel

Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince (2009), shot by Bruno Delbonnel, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 61 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f312a), covering 17.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.71 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.165 — more saturated than 12% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.312 — brighter than 1% of ranked films

Measured across 61 frames. See the frames on the Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince page →

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