I finally got photoshop installed again (reformatted), so I could test the color value of the sunlit leaves.
1) Your hawk image opens as a RGB image, not a CMYK image.
2) the sunlight reflection off of the helmet will wash out the surrounding colors.
- I took four samples with the eyedropper, the black stripe, a shaded leaf, a sunlit leaf, and the hunter green swatch I posted on the last page.
- rather than judge tiny little strings of color, I made large blocks of the four eyedrop color samples.
See the attachment, and it looks awfully hunter green to me. The stripes are not similar to the green leavs at all, unless the only frame of reference is the leaf in the shade, which is a bad example.