Thaisky‑Digital
Since 2004 · Bangkok
We have worked in specialist photography for more than twenty years. Construction time-lapse — recording a single site continuously over months and years — is our craft, and the rigs and techniques we record it with are our own, designed and built in-house.
Custom hardware
We build rigs to suit the conditions of each site, so that a camera mounted somewhere high and hard to reach keeps working without interruption.
Remote control
Every camera is monitored and controlled remotely over the internet. Settings can be adjusted in real time, from another continent if need be.
Flexible quality
File quality comes in several tiers, so the work can be balanced against each client's budget and requirements.
Dusit Central Park · Le MENARA · ONE BANGKOK · ICONSIAM · Sansiri XT Phayathai · Pepsi · McCormick · Bangkok Church · GSM Golf · QSNCC · UOB New Head Office · Beiersdorf Nivea · Sansiri Pattaya · Le Bua Chef's Table
Seven steps, from the first conversation about what you need through to the final film — select a step to see the detail.
Step 1
We listen to what you need first, so the scope of the work can be set against your budget.
Step 2
We survey the site and agree the mounting points with everyone involved.
Step 3
We present the whole plan for your consideration.
Step 4
A 50% deposit starts the work, alongside the contract documents.
Step 5
The full system goes in, and recording begins.
Step 6
Recording runs all month, with a report and a delivery every month.
Step 7
Everything recorded is drawn together into the final film.
A construction project only moves forward. If the recording fails for a month, that month is gone for good — no budget brings it back. For twenty years we have designed everything around that one fact.
Live view and an instant sample time-lapse, a separate interval for every hour from 1 second to 24 hours, downloads whenever you want, and an alert to our office before storage runs low.
The camera runs from a solar panel installed with it and reports its power status back to the office.
Open ground with nowhere high to mount a camera? We put up a steel mast with our own crew, engineer-certified on request.
Thaisky-Digital was the first in Thailand to shoot from height using kites, balloons and radio-controlled helicopters, and the first to bring drones into commercial photography.
Each time no tool on the market would do the job, we built our own. The construction time-lapse system we run today came out of the same habit.
The common approach is to leave a camera recording video and speed it up afterwards. It works, but a year of video is an enormous file, every re-edit means processing all of it again, and worst of all a camera fault mid-month can take the whole file with it.
We record separate still frames. If a camera fails on the 20th, every frame from the 1st to the 19th is still there, whole.
Because every frame is its own full-resolution file, you can ask for the 12th of March at any time and use it in a report, a board presentation, or as a record.
One minute or three, faster or slower, Full HD or 4K, as many versions as you need — all from the same set of frames. A system whose source is video cannot do this.
Every camera is reachable over VPN, so the interval can be changed at any time. Faster while the structure is going up, slower through a fit-out that changes little from week to week.
A system fixed at one interval ends up with ten thousand near-identical frames, or too few at the moment that mattered.
DSLR — the highest resolution, recording both JPEG and RAW, for work where frames will be enlarged or used in publicity.
4K industrial camera — the best value for long-term progress recording, in standard and 180-degree wide-angle for sites that need the whole area in one frame.
Camera rental — for smaller projects or tighter budgets.
Five years and seven months of continuous recording at ONE Bangkok — without a single missing day
The equipment and the way it is mounted are our own design, in continuous use for more than twenty years.
Mounted on high ground beside the site, so the entire job fits one frame.
A weatherproof enclosure on a mast in open ground, with its own solar panel.
Installed, maintained and adjusted by the Thaisky-Digital crew for the life of the project.
Where open ground has nowhere high to mount a camera, our own crew puts up a steel mast, engineer-certified on request.
Clients often ask which camera we use. The answer is that the camera is only the lens: resolution is chosen to suit the job, from 4K up to a 30–50 megapixel DSLR. What actually decides whether a time-lapse running for months or years succeeds is the software behind it — software that always shows the camera is working, lets settings change without a site visit, and hands the images over straight away. We wrote this application ourselves, for our own work.
Feeds from every site come up on the screens in our office. The cameras run day and night, so if one stops sending pictures, we see it at once.
The lower-left screen shows a 180-degree wide-angle camera taking in the whole area in one frame. The upright screen on the right shows how, for a tall building at close range, we turn the camera to portrait.
The frames recorded for a client follow whatever hours the job needs — often daylight only — which is why the night views on these screens can show some glare without touching what is delivered.
The control screen shows the camera's status, the latest frame from site, the interval set, and a countdown to the next shot — with a button to save the image on the spot, and a Play button that runs the latest 100 frames as a sample time-lapse, without waiting for the project to end.
Each of the 24 hours has its own interval, anywhere from one second to twenty-four hours. Sunrise, 05:00–07:00, and sunset, 17:00–19:00, can run dense to catch the light. Clients can see the settings; only an administrator can change them. When the pace of work on site shifts, or a client wants more frames for a particular stretch, we change it online, with no site visit.
Newest frames first, each file named by project, camera, date and time, with its size and the gap since the previous shot. Open any frame full size and download it straight away. Only a password-holding administrator can delete, and only once the frames are safely stored at our office.
The stats page shows the total space, the space used and left on the camera, and the number of files, with a chart you can read at a glance. When space runs low, the system alerts our office, so we can deal with it well before the day it fills.
The best camera in the world is no use if it stops for three months and nobody notices.
Experienced engineers who know electrical and electronic systems inside out.
An editing team with more than 20 years in video production behind them.
Ground shooting, drone work and the specialist rigs each of them needs — all in-house.
Where a site has nowhere high to mount a camera, we put up steel masts from 3 to 40 metres with our own crew, with engineer certification available on request.
DSLRs capture at very large sizes, so frames can be enlarged a long way without falling apart.
Reach us on LINE, or call 081-828-7131 during working hours.
Address
Thaisky-Digital Co., Ltd.
198 Yenjit Road, Thongwatdorn, Sathorn, Bangkok 10120
Phone
Thanet Duangphattra
081-828-7131
You can reach us on LINE, or call 081-828-7131.