Focus On The Past - A Genealogists Guide To Photography by Kenneth L. Smith

This is a book on genealogical photography. While some of the more basic photographic concepts are presented, it is not a book on general photography --and much of what  could well be categorized as genealogical photography is in fact general photography. Consider family reunions. Taking good pictures of the people in attendance is certainly genealogical, but pictures of people are pictures of people, regardless of where you find them or the circumstances under which they gather. General photographic topics such as this have been well covered elsewhere. Materials of this type will not be covered here in any detail. Instead, this book concentrates on those aspects of photography that, while they are not of sufficiently general interest to merit coverage in more general works on photography, are of great interest to genealogical photographers.

Much of the material that follows may seem to you at first hopelessly technical and unmercifully steeped in jargon, and you may well have to re-read some sections several times to completely understand them, and some material will be better understood after you've read material that follows it. If you do not understand a term, just look it up in the Glossary at the end of this book.