what color is this shoe?

[Bongo]

 

[brianvds]

No need to fight over it - Gimp's colour picker tool is your friend:

Whatever you call those colours, those are the shoe's colours.

Lemme guess, we've got a worthy successor to that infamous dress.

 

[Terri]

I was going with the teal/gray option.

 

[Bongo]

I think it might be a practial joke. I noticed in the video everytime someone said it was pink - you couldn't see the screen they were looking at,.

 

[Hermes2020]

The question is ambiguous. I assume it is asking what the actual shoe colour is, not what colour it appears to be in the photo, which are the colours Brian has extracted with Gimp. I did some white balancing, with the assumption that the laces are white. I think the actual shoe is pink, but it looks teal in the photo owing to distorted colour balancing. Here is my result, The hand is now more flesh-coloured and the wood of the Alvar Aalto table looks more natural.

 

[TK H-H]

Looks like a pink/beige color to me.

 

[brianvds]

Looks like a pink/beige color to me.

It looks that way to me too. But it isn't, as I determined with my color picker in my previous post. As Hermes notes, the question itself is ambiguous.

It is said that "an artist is some who wonders what the color of a glass of milk in the shade is." When we see things in unfamiliar or unusual lighting conditions, it messes with our heads, because the lighting will change the color of the light that hits our retinas, but our brains will want to work out what color the object "really" is. But of course, in a very real way, there ain't no such thing as the "real" color. What you see is what you get. It may be that the shoe's "real" color is actually pink and white. But that's not the color that's issuing from the screen!

Check out this one:

 

[Enyaw]

Look at the snow on a warm winter day..so blue in shade but go get a handful and it’s white.

 

[Bongo]

the compliment of teal is orange. I think that we "know" Coca-Cola cans are red adds to the effect of seeing the can as red

 

[Hermes2020]

Yes, the brain can be deceived easily. This is still one of the best examples, where A and B are the identical shade.

 

[Bongo]

This is one of the most disturbing images I know of., I've seen it before, and tried to forget it. You cannot make your eyes see both squares as the same value no matter how hard you try .

As an analogy; of being judged by the company you keep, on pre-conceived notions, etc... the limits of our senses....dangers of provincialism...

 

[Hermes2020]

This is one of the most disturbing images I know of., I've seen it before, and tried to forget it. You cannot make your eyes see both squares as the same value no matter how hard you try .

As an analogy; of being judged by the company you keep, on pre-conceived notions, etc... the limits of our senses....dangers of provincialism...

The only way I can see the correct values is to cut two holes that correspond to squares A and B in a sheet of paper and then overlay it on the image.

 

[Enyaw]

Color bias and surroundings make your eyes see color that isn’t real. I was looking at a painting that had no blue in the mix but I was seeing blue and purple in the sky and hills. Turns out that a cool neutral mixed with hooker green and crimson makes a neutral either warm based because of crimson or cool based because of hookers green. So those neutrals when in the right company show me purples or blues. I must try that on one of my paintings one day.