How do I handle mixed lighting when shooting?

You can light most scenes now, so the frustration you feel with mixed-light situations is the frustration of someone who has already come a long way. Mixed light is genuinely hard. You are fighting several sources that disagree about color and strength, all at once, and the eye forgives what the camera will not. This is one of the last walls, not a sign you are behind.\nThe trap in mixed light is trying to save everything. You cannot. The people who handle it well decide what wins. They pick which source is the truth of the scene and bend or kill the others rather than balancing all of them equally. The skill is not control of every light. It is the judgment to choose one and commit.\nNext time you face a mixed-light setup, do not touch anything until you have named the dominant source out loud. Decide what the scene is lit by, then treat every other source as something to match, tame, or lose. Practice that one decision on hard scenes and the chaos starts to organize itself around your choice.