Scientific studies regularly show that couples who share feelings, similar interests, and an airtight alibi often prove more compatible in the long run. Show your significant other you care by sharing today's Groupon: for $45, you get a three-hour Date Night photo class for two at Richard Stromberg's Chicago Photography Classes (a $90 value). Classes take place Saturdays at 5 p.m.; participants may supply their own DSLR cameras or borrow one for the class.

Richard Stromberg helms his self-named photography studio with five decades of teaching experience and more than four decades of industry-sharpened know-how. Three-hour date-night classes kick off with a wine-and-cheese mixer hosted inside Stromberg's WithInSight Gallery––a collection of photographs captured by some of the more than 25,000 students that have graced his classroom. Next, fledgling photogs learn to decipher the numbers, abbreviations, and hieroglyphics marked on personal or borrowed DSLR cameras, learning to manipulate the controls to craft clearer pictures or fuzzily camouflage any background grease fire.

The final hour of class revolves around a question-and-answer session, during which professionals opine over the best cameras and equipment to help students in future photographic forays. Each class corrals between four and ten couples, ensuring individualized attention as well as enough bodies to form an impromptu flag football team.