Same exact thing happened to me ~ and like you, it was the same camera, same setting, same lighting, same photography technique, everything. I fought and they paid me, and offered me another one, assuring me that the editing crew had just gotten overzealous and it wouldn't happen again, my photos were fine.
So I did it and the was rejected for the same reason. I fought and got paid that time, too; and never did another. :/
Dad & I like the pizza (and the garlic sauce) too.
Practitioner of the Nerdly Arts.