How to pick a filter for your own

Filters are things we usually use to take pictures of the same scenery with different effects. Nowadays, color filters are less used, because we can easily photoshop them to have exactly same effect with filters just using the filter tool in the software. If you skills good enough to use photoshop, maybe you'll need no filters.
Then it comes to how to pick filters that you want.
The more we know about photography, the more we know it's all about light. Light in photography is very important. And the "Light" I'm talking here is those that get into your lenses. How can we get more light? I'm sure no one will say to focus on the sun, because that is ridiculous. We want more light gets into our pictures!
Some membranes can help us do this. When we pick filters we should check whether it has anti-reflection membranes. One way to pick your filters.
Then it become different, we use filters to achieve our idea in our mind. The easy thing came. Pick what kind that you ever need.

I like CPL filters, and have some GND filters is good too - but I use them a lot less.

rick_reno wrote in post #14160606
I like CPL filters, and have some GND filters is good too - .

+1 They're the only filters I carry

Mike R wrote in post #14165513
+1 They're the only filters I carry

I use macro filter, too. But instead of monocle, I use "double agglutination lens". That will help me to achieve better effect. Although a little bit more expensive, but we can get almost same effect just as professional lenses. What do you think?