Mark Fernley

This Wildlife Photographer’s Guide to Samburu National Reserve explores one of Kenya’s most distinctive ecosystems through the lens of serious safari photography. From the Samburu Special Five to leopard, lion and elephant along the Ewaso Nyiro River, this guide covers natural history, access, recommended lenses, lighting challenges and fieldcraft insights to help photographers create purposeful, refined wildlife images in northern Kenya.

We at Untamed Photo Safaris would like to say a big thank you to all our guests that attended our photographic safaris from 2023.

An Intro to Back Button Focus What exactly is back button focus? Most cameras focus by half pressing the shutter button where it focuses and when you completely press it all the way down. Back button focus is taking the focus ability away from the trigger or shutter button and assigning it to a back button instead. All that the front shutter button will then do is start the light metre and take photos. The focusing of the camera is now controlled by the back button. When you press it down,...