Hey man. I recently had this problem and found a solution. Go into your skyrim.ini and locate fVanityModeMinDist= under camera settings. When I couldn't zoom in very far this was set at 155. I changed it to 50 and I can get nice and close to my character with the camera now. Hope this helps!
I know nothing about modding, only how to install them ;) Was thinking this would be a cool war paint. If someone could do it that would be awesome. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u2GbqbQOqmU/TZYP9IcMpHI/AAAAAAAAAPo/LSR-p9xUlck/s1600/Sting.jpg