  Compton scattering offers a unique opportunity to study the dynamical
structure of hadrons over a wide kinematic range, with polarizabilities
characterizing the hadron active internal degrees of freedom. We present
calculations and detailed analysis of electric and magnetic and the
spin-dependent dynamical polarizabilities for the lowest in mass SU(3) octet of
baryons. These extensive calculations are made possible by the recent
implementation of semi-automatized calculations in chiral perturbation theory
which allows evaluating polarizabilities from Compton scattering up to
next-to-the-leading order. The dependencies for the range of photon energies
covering the majority of the meson photoproduction channels are analyzed.
