When trying to capture mixed lighting, I was stuck! Mixed lighting is defined as multiple illuminants with different colour/temperatures that can further complicate performing a white balance. After reading this, the colour wheel inspired me to try and display the mixing of light and colours together. For this photograph, I placed a red light and a blue light on either side of Stephanie. This forced the two lights to mix and create purple light in the middle. My favourite part about this picture is Stephanie's shadow. I thought it was so cool how her shadow is red, even though the blue light was pointing in that direction. Overall, mixed lighting was not as hard as I had put it out to be, and my photo was successful!
I'm a studio photography teacher at the Art Institute and that's not what mixed lighting means. What you just defined was using the same light source (I'm assuming you're using strobes) while putting different color gels over the strobes. The true definition of mixed lighting is while using strobes, there is another light source (computer, candle, room lamp) in the frame without being blown out and the remaining of the image is not underexposed. Mixed lighting is not easy to conquer, it takes time and practice. And as for your image, the lights are too low. You don't want the shadows going up, it's unflattering.
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