The problem is not the lighting. Even though more intense lights will give you more options that will help you solve other problems i.e.. blur and depth of field.
The problem is the limitation with light meters when it comes to white back grounds. Unless your camera has a spot meter that can focus only on the bead. The cameras meter will be fooled into thinking that the white should be grey and under expose the image. If you have ever photographed a snow covered landscape and had all of your photos come out under exposed this is the reason.
The solution is exposure compensation. Two ways to achieve this would be with the exposure compensation setting in the camera or shooting in manual mode. Either way what you will need to do is open up the exposure around a stop and a half above what the meter is telling you it should be. Depending on your meter possibly up to three stops. You'll have to experiment to find the right compensation .
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