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I experienced the same problem with the php extension. (Todays last versions, compiled from source ; ImageMagick-7.0.2-2; php lib:imagick-3.4.3RC1)
I made this workaround:
Substitute
$orientation = $image->getImageOrientation();
with

$props = $image->getImageProperties('exif:Orientation', true ...

I'm using it from php.
I updated to ImageMagick-7.0.2-2.
It works as expected.

fmw42,
convert in2.jpg -set colorspace RGB -background Orange label:'Faerie Dragon' +swap -gravity Center -append out.jpg
did not work.
It works only when you put it at the end.
I found and some other issues with my version, trying to auto orient images, so it seems installing a new version will ...

Thanks all for the replies.
I attached the files here: http://ge.tt/2kvlr8c2

fmw42, the original image got lightened. I tried changing Orange with White, but the same effect.

I tried this command and it worked fine:
convert in2.jpg -background Orange label:'Faerie Dragon' +swap -gravity Center ...

I saw that on B/W images while trying to annotate them, the whole image becomes lighter than the source image.
For full color images it is ok.
I saw the same affect happens also when trying to composite one small image over the b/w source.

I was using php lib, but also tried with this command ...