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Walk The Line (2005) colour palette

Directed by James Mangold · Shot by Phedon Papamichael

Walk The Line (2005), shot by Phedon Papamichael, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#35302a), covering 10.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.628 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.238 — more saturated than 44% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.404 — brighter than 43% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Walk The Line page →

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