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Mission: Impossible III (2006) colour palette

Directed by J.J. Abrams · Shot by Dan Mindel

The main colours of Mission: Impossible III (2006) are deep blue (#182935), over a near-black base: a warm, natural palette, measured across the film's frames.

Mission: Impossible III (2006), shot by Dan Mindel, runs natural and warm, measured across 19 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are blue and orange. The single most common colour is dark grey (#323230), covering 10.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.271 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.337 — more saturated than 82% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.382 — brighter than 27% of ranked films

Measured across 19 frames. See the frames on the Mission: Impossible III page →

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