| > And if you look at the HSL values of the juice in product photos like the following, you'll get hue values of around 52°: So, Just clicking around your first OJ example and checking lots and lots of pixels, in all the areas of the juice, the juice pixels seem to be mostly around 38-42, with a low of about 32 and a high of about 50. So, as I said, closer to orange (30) than yellow (60), though also definitely in between. > For comparison, here's the first result for "banana" in Google Images: > It's 48°, even closer to orange than orange juice. Most of the brightly illuminated top seems to be in the 48-52 range, the indirectly-lit side is mostly in the mid 40s, though there are some pixels right along the bottom edge that are also brightly lit (from the reflection from the white surface of the light source above) that hit around 60. Its not more orange than the juice, for sure. |
The cap of the Tropicana bottle has hue values of 25-30°. Which makes sense, because it's clearly visually orange.
So the idea that any of the juice shows 32° is just false. That would be straight-up orange, basically the same color as the cap. But the juice isn't orange. The cap is. In fact, I can't find anywhere on the juice that is anywhere in the 30's, contrary to what you say.
The juice is not closer to orange than yellow. Full stop. It's yellow. Yellow like a banana. That's visually obvious, and it's clear upon exact measurement as well.
(The only thing I can guess is maybe you have some kind of night shift affecting color measurements on your display or something, that's making them redder than they really are?)