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Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) colour palette

Directed by Scott Hicks · Shot by Robert Richardson

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), shot by Robert Richardson, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 60 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f2b2d), covering 17.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.337 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.118 — more saturated than 5% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.338 — brighter than 6% of ranked films

Measured across 60 frames. See the frames on the Snow Falling on Cedars page →

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