How much does Macro & Close-up Photography cost?

Macro & Close-up Photography is free to join on Skool, with paid tiers inside, read 1 Nov 2026.

How many members does Macro & Close-up Photography have?

Macro & Close-up Photography lists 1,180 members, read 1 Nov 2026.

How has Macro & Close-up Photography's membership changed?

From 1,094 members on 31 Aug 2026, our first reading, to 1,180 on 1 Nov 2026: up 86, or 8%.

How does Macro & Close-up Photography compare with other content and audience building communities?

The niche median is 540 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.

What else does Macro & Close-up Photography's seller list?

The same seller has 1 other listing we track: Wildlife Photography.

What do you get inside Macro & Close-up Photography?

Macro & Close-up Photography publishes 40 course modules, 9 courses, 2,037 posts, 2 admins. Communities with the most course content.

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Macro & Close-up Photography review

Macro & Close-up Photography is listed on Skool. It is free to join, with paid tiers inside.

A review on the numbers, not an opinion: nobody here has joined Macro & Close-up Photography, and nothing below is a verdict.

Macro & Close-up Photography is a Skool community, created in 2025, for learning to take sharper, more creative macro and close-up photographs.^[1] It is run by the photographer and educator Stewart Wood, whose site describes it as a space for macro photographers drawn to subjects from insects and spiders to flowers and droplets.^[2] Beginners and experienced photographers are both welcome, whether shooting on a phone or trying a macro lens for the first time.^[1]

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Members: 1,180
Published price: Free to join, paid tiers inside
Members, last 31 days: +47; 1 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026
Rank by members: #1,434; of 6,077 sellers listed here
Size rank in niche: #332; of 1,230 sellers listed in content and audience building, by published members
Check the Course score: 88; B+, strong
Niche: Content and audience building; 1,308 listed here
Created: 8 Jul 2025; Skool publishes this date
Readings: 15; since 31 Aug 2026

About Macro & Close-up Photography

Topics include focus, lighting, composition and creative techniques, along with settings, equipment, editing and focus stacking.^[1] The group runs live Zoom Q&As, critiques and discussions, monthly challenges and creative projects, and meet-ups, and it bars self-promotion.^[1]

Wood's business, Stewart Wood Photography, also sells workshops, Lightroom presets and background textures, including a practical macro workshop with Sony covering shooting, editing and focus stacking.^[2] Wood gives talks on macro photography, from beginner introductions to technical sessions on focus stacking, and in 2025 presented "An Introduction to Macro Photography" on the Creator Stage of the Wales & West Photography Show.^[3] Wood expanded into wildlife photography in late 2024.^[2]

Sources

Skool listing: skool.com/macro-photography, as collected 21 Sept 2026
Official website: stewartwood.com, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
Official website: stewartwood.com/about, retrieved 28 Sept 2026

Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.

What the listing describes

NicheContent and audience buildingNicheFitness and healthFormatCommunity

Read from the listing’s own words: what is offered, never how well.

What is inside

Course modules

Courses

Posts, all time

2,037

People running it

Counts published by Macro & Close-up Photography on its own page, read on 17 Oct 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by stewart-wood-5858.

How we knowSourced & dated

Observed on 1 Nov 2026 from Skool source page archived copy 7c4a00dc7f67.

Observable monthly ceiling

Not calculated

This community is free to join, with paid tiers inside. The readings record the free join price, not the prices of the paid tiers, so no ceiling is calculated.

Against the content and audience building niche

Percentile among the other 1,307 content and audience building listings here, each seller counted once for size.

Size73rd

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Check the Course Score

88B+Strong

Ahead of 88% of the 13,576 Skool communities we track, including ones without a page here, on the measures below, each read from a figure Macro & Close-up Photography published itself.

Size 53% of the scoreahead of 84%
Growth 27% of the scoreahead of 66%
Track record 20% of the scoreahead of 56%

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Net member count up 8% between our first reading, on 31 Aug 2026, and our latest, on 1 Nov 2026.

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Evidence and signals

Listed on 1,180 members.

Evidence: measured.

Following elsewhere: 57,300 at its largest57,300 on YouTube. Followers on another platform, not members here.
First recorded: 31 August 2026our first reading, not its launch
Elsewhere: Website YouTube

Tracked over time

Member change

+11+0.9%over 4 days+47+4.1%over 31 days

Price change

Unchanged at all 14 readings with a price

15 observations over 63 days.

Member count

Observation log

Observation log
Observed	Members	Change	Price	Ceiling / month
1 Nov 2026	1,180	+11	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
28 Oct 2026	1,169	+5	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
26 Oct 2026	1,164	+1	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
24 Oct 2026	1,163	+7	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
20 Oct 2026	1,156	+3	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
19 Oct 2026	1,153	-1	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
17 Oct 2026	1,154	+6	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
13 Oct 2026	1,148	+2	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
9 Oct 2026	1,146	+7	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
5 Oct 2026	1,139	+6	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
1 Oct 2026	1,133	0	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
29 Sept 2026	1,133	+7	Not recorded	Not calculated
21 Sept 2026	1,126	+23	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
5 Sept 2026	1,103	+9	Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
31 Aug 2026	1,094		Free + paid tiers	Not calculated
Average per week, last 31 days1 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026		+11
Average per week, since first reading31 Aug 2026 to 1 Nov 2026		+10

Course content readings

Course content readings
Observed	Posts	Modules	Courses
17 Oct 2026	2,037+110	40+1	9
29 Sept 2026	1,927+81	39+2	9
10 Sept 2026	1,846	37	9
Added per week10 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026	+37	+0.6	0

Common questions about Macro & Close-up Photography

What is Macro & Close-up Photography?: Macro & Close-up Photography is a Skool community, created in 2025, for learning to take sharper, more creative macro and close-up photographs.
How much does Macro & Close-up Photography cost?: Macro & Close-up Photography is free to join on Skool, with paid tiers inside, read 1 Nov 2026.
How many members does Macro & Close-up Photography have?: Macro & Close-up Photography lists 1,180 members, read 1 Nov 2026.
How has Macro & Close-up Photography's membership changed?: From 1,094 members on 31 Aug 2026, our first reading, to 1,180 on 1 Nov 2026: up 86, or 8%.
How does Macro & Close-up Photography compare with other content and audience building communities?: The niche median is 540 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
What else does Macro & Close-up Photography's seller list?: The same seller has 1 other listing we track: Wildlife Photography.
What do you get inside Macro & Close-up Photography?: Macro & Close-up Photography publishes 40 course modules, 9 courses, 2,037 posts, 2 admins. Communities with the most course content.