The reason I did this is because I saw someone in CS:S gave body awareness and body shadows in first person by adjusting the third person camera to look like the first person camera.
In the game or in the Editor?
In the game, you can press and hold the F key and move the camera around with the mouse. I think TVM will also work in the console to give you a flying camera independent of the character.
Not sure how to do this in the editor, but there is a setting where you can fly around the cell you are making.