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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? poster

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009) colour palette

Directed by Werner Herzog · Shot by Peter Zeitlinger

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009), shot by Peter Zeitlinger, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f302f), covering 13.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.517 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.15 — more saturated than 9% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.477 — brighter than 88% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? page →

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