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Taste of Cherry (1997) colour palette

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami · Shot by Homayun Payvar

Taste of Cherry (1997), shot by Homayun Payvar, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 34 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#302f2b), covering 8.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.818 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.278 — more saturated than 62% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.494 — brighter than 92% of ranked films

Measured across 34 frames. See the frames on the Taste of Cherry page →

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