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Salt (2010) colour palette

Directed by Phillip Noyce · Shot by Robert Elswit

Salt (2010), shot by Robert Elswit, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 122 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#30312e), covering 18.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.521 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.131 — more saturated than 6% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.443 — brighter than 73% of ranked films

Measured across 122 frames. See the frames on the Salt page →

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