Salmon Fishing and the Apple iPhone 4

While I have not been lucky at all catching salmon out of the pier at Waukegan Harbor, my cousin-in-law and his friend Rocky (pictured here) have been doing GREAT!

Between the two of them, I think they have caught at least five coho and king salmon in the past couple of weeks. This photo shows Rocky's first king salmon and it's a beauty! It measured 27.5 inches and weighed 8.3 lbs.  It was caught on Sept 12 at 6:05 AM.  Congrats to both of them on their fishing success.

This photo was taken with an Apple iPhone 4. No manipulations were done to the photo other than downsizing it for the web upload and adding a copyright notice. Overall, I'd say the image is near perfect. Great color, great exposure, and pleasing composition... you can't do much better!

But can the iPhone 4 replace a DSLR? No... you can't do all the great things that a DSLR can do with all the manual and automatic adjustments. But for a quick shot, this is one nice image from a phone camera!

Be sure to click on the image to take a closer look.