traditional vs. modern photos

Hey -- I need some help! I'm trying to decide on what photographers to look into. Based on what I'm seeing, you can pick something that's more modern, or stick with a more traditional photographer... but..WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE??? lol I feel clueless. Can someone shed some light on this for me?

:) Thanks

traditional photographers will take the pictures you're used to seeing from wedding albums: a lot of family line-ups and poses, straight on with no angles or special lighting.

modern photographers have gone the route of photojournalists and play with angles, shading, lighting, and focus on a lot of the little details and unplanned moments.

there are photographers who can do both, though, and that's what we're getting - my mom can get copies of the annoying 'everyone on the bride's side stand over here' pictures but then i get really funky shots of everything else

hth!

we're actually not set in stone yet!

our top choices aren't photographers usually used by LIW, but they are recommended vendors from apracticalwedding.com:

http://hartandsolphoto.com/#/pricing-e/

http://ambermarlow.com/portfolio/

http://fedorovfoto.com/

http://www.kellyprizel.com/portfolio/

http://www.pennacephotography.com/#/page/95e6/home/

and http://www.gutphoto.com/ who has been used on here before and i was actually leaning most towards, but haven't gotten a response to my last email yet!