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Tired of screener rejections with lame reasons?

Jetmechanicdave
Jetmechanicdave
Cadet
Joined May 2026
7 posts
#1 18 Jun 2026, 11:30 UTC (edited)

 "Horizon not level."

 It's level. I checked. In Lightroom. With the ruler tool. To 0.05°.

 "Image soft."

 Shot at 1/1000, f/8, ISO 200, on a body that costs more than my car. But sure.

 "Composition."

 Cool, real specific. Thanks.

 "Heat haze."

 It's January. In Manchester.

 Every aviation shooter knows the loop — wait days for the queue, eat a rejection with a one-word reason, guess what
 they actually meant, resubmit, wait again.

 So I built Squawk to pre-screen your shots against the stuff screeners actually fail you on — horizon to a tenth of a
 degree, sharpness at pixel level, exposure histogram, tail/wingtip crop, centering, dust spots — before you upload
 anywhere. Tells you exactly what's off and by how much.

 If you've ever yelled at a rejection email at 1am, this is for you.

 

Post your shot here before uploading it for screening and we will let you know what's wrong with it!  

 

Canon R6 Mark iii 

 

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