OK, so it's an advanced Point & Shoot, your ISO ideally should be set as low as possible to enable you to shoot, but in practice, most newer cameras are fine in the 400 and lower range. Assuming you have a tripod (you mentioned it in the package) and the camera has a timer release (so you can push the button and the camera will wait 2 to 10 seconds before taking the photo so the camera will stop vibrating) I would suggest you keep the ISO at or lower than 200. Not sure what type of lights you are using, but the camera has settings for the top ones (daylight, tungsten, 2 different flourescents) if your lights fall into one of those categories, try setting it to that ans see if you have better color balance. If none of them work out, read the manual about how to set a custom color balance (there are a lot of different methods to do this, so you really need your manual...) Then work on the exposure, and if your lighting stays relatively consistent, I would suggest going in full manual mode, and keeping with the tripod mode, set the aperture in the mid-high range (specs I found did not list the lowest aperture, just the highest of 3.4-5.6 depending on the zoom position) which is probably going to be a number such as 11, 16, 22, etc. Stick with 11 or higher, and if you have trouble keeping the pen in focus front to back, move higher still. Then figure your shutter speed based on that aperture. The camera is likely going to suggest a shutter speed, but that will likely give you too dark in image. Play with the shutter speed and get a feel for how far open from the meter reading you need to do to get the photo looking right. It will probably be telling you that the exposure is 1.5 to 2 stops overexposes, but this is fne.
And I'd still say to either move one or 2 of your lights more forward or add one or 2 ahead of the pen.
