Sunsets too bright to be believed

Tricky things, photographs of sunsets. I see these amazing skies, and take lots of photographs. When I look at the resulting pictures, they seem unreal, almost unnatural, the colours too brilliant to be right, unbalanced by the intense gleam of the sun.

I prefer sunsets with colour but no actual sun visible. We had one like that yesterday, with reds and blacks shading upwards to blues and greys:

A little earlier, some geese flew across a bright yellow sky. The result was…too bright and too yellow. I preferred it in black and white.