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My Own Private Idaho (1991) colour palette

Directed by Gus Van Sant · Shot by Eric Alan Edwards

My Own Private Idaho (1991), shot by Eric Alan Edwards, runs natural and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#332f2a), covering 9.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.827 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.324 — more saturated than 79% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.407 — brighter than 45% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the My Own Private Idaho page →

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