Hakan Basar was born in Germany ,1977 and living in Istanbul,Turkey since 1983. He is working about Musical Instruments industry since 1999 and owner of his company.He started to diving in 2010 and got a camera after short time.
He dives at many dive sites around the world and worked on workshop tours .
Hakan has been participating in national and international competitions since 2015 and has received more than 30 awards .
He has been dived at many dive sites around the world especially macro places and worked some workshop tours at Lembeh, Anilao , Romblon , Ambon ,Raja ampat, Dumaguete and Manado .
He has been participating in national and international competitions since 2015 and has won more than 30 awards. The most important achievement is winning the Turkey UW photo championship in 2017 and got 3rd place in the 2019 CMAS World UW Photo Championship / Tenerife as a Turkish team.
The first camera it owned was the Nikon d90 , used between 2010 and 2013 .
He is still using Nikon D800E full frame camera since 2013 with nauticam housing and Ikelite DS161 dual strobes for wide angle , Inon Z240 for macro shots .
He loves creative photography technics and often use these technics on his works . By the way , he is working on open source camera software for improvement the picture control and developed his own strobe flash with personalized features.
